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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670490

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gloucester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Blood
2. Elizabeth Blood
3. Nathaniel Richardson

Legislative action: Referred to the committee on federal relations

Total signatures: 37

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35

Female signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855

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.