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Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029882

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: East Douglas

Selected signatures:

1. Robert Pierce
2. Luther Wing
3. Amos G. Yates

Total signatures: 25

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Possibly includes minor males?; 2 reverends, note on town not being definite

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.