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Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029905

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lock's Village

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Augustus L. West, New Bedford; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. John C. Ball
2. Elijah Gardner Jr.
3. Luther E. Cole

Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-15,1859-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1859 and concurred

Total signatures: 47

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25

Other male signatures: 22

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, [other males]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Are the signatures actually divided into legal voters? Some signatures copied

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.