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Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029841

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Mendon, Uxbridge, Blackstone

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alanson S. Freeman, Mendon; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Eliab M. Perham
2. Willard H. Swan
3. Francis C. Aldrich

Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-23,1859-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 23, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 24, 1859 and concurred

Total signatures: 57

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["legal voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: [example of copied signatures]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.