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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Theodore J. Clark

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Theodore J. Clark
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/8EFID
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858417

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Cummington

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

  1. Theodore J. Clark
  2. Hiram Brown
  3. Eveline Brown

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-22,1851-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 22, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 24, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 153

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 72

Female signatures: 65

Other male signatures: 10

Unidentified signatures: 6

Female only signatures: No

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

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
John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on slavery
Eveline Brown
Hiram Brown
Theodore J. Clark
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
column separated
No
65
72
10
153
6