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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858310

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Selected signatures:

1. Isaac R. Barbour
2. James W. Stone
3. William Bates
4. George F. Williams
5. Samuel E. Sewall
6. B.B. Mussey [Benjamin B. Mussey]
7. George W. Light
8. Joseph Southwick
9. Anson J. Stone
10. John Milton Earle
11. Delano March
12. Benjamin P. Rice

Total signatures: 55

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 54

Other male signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, selectman, [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: Towns next to names including Worceseter, Boston, Stoneham, Montgomery, Dorchester, Somerville, Cambridge, Charlestown, Milford, Littleton, Paxton, Watertown, Princeton, Cummington, Montague, Foxborough, Heath, South Reading, Mansfield, Manchester, Brookfield, Chelsea, Sturbridge, Erving, Brookline

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.