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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858363

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Natick

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Clark, Northborough; special committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. James Thurston
2. John Adams
3. James T. Allen

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05

Legislative action: Referred to the special committee on slavery on February 5, 1851

Total signatures: 19

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 14

Other male signatures: 5

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [other males], ["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: 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.