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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Abel Fearing

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Abel Fearing
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7IH2QN
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858228

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Hingham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joint committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

  1. Abel Fearing
  2. Benjamin S. Whiting
  3. Charles Shute
  4. Caleb Stoddard
  5. Charles Whiton
  6. William S. Tower
  7. Lucy J. Cushing
  8. Nancy Sprague
  9. Harriet S. Gardner
  10. Lucy Chipman
  11. Lydia D. Jacob
  12. Judith Wilder
  13. Hannah Leavitt
  14. Sarah Burbank
  15. Rhoda Beal

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1851 and referred to the joint committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 115

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 78

Female signatures: 33

Other male signatures: 4

Female only signatures: No

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


 
Subject Social Sciences
concurred
received
received
referred
sent
Printed
Joint committee on slavery
Abel Fearing
Benjamin S. Whiting
Caleb Stoddard
Charles Shute
Charles Whiton
Hannah Leavitt
Harriet S. Gardner
Judith Wilder
Lucy Chipman
Lucy J. Cushing
Lydia D. Jacob
Nancy Sprague
Rhoda Beal
Sarah Burbank
William S. Tower
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
others
voters
column separated
No
33
78
4
115