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House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Samuel L. Rockwood

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Samuel L. Rockwood
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/53Y72
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029842

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Weymouth

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Elias S. Beals, Weymouth; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

  1. Samuel L. Rockwood
  2. Albert Ford
  3. Eliza A. Ford

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: 171

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 91

Female signatures: 80

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
concurred
received
received
referred
sent
Printed
Elias S. Beals, Weymouth; committee on federal relations
Albert Ford
Eliza A. Ford
Samuel L. Rockwood
citizens
females
others
column separated
No
80
91
171