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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858354

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: South Reading

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edward Mansfield, South Reading; joint select committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Reuben Emerson
2. Daniel W. Phillips
3. Elbridge Sweetser

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 244

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 244

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Women started to sign the petition and were crossed out; "m.d."/doctor next to a signature

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162

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.