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Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858462

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gardner

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Mason, Fitchburg; joint special committee on the subject of slavery; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Henry Lawrence
2. Asa Richardson
3. Phineas Clark
4. Lucy Stone
5. Sarah W. Lawrence

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-06,1851-02-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1851 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 7, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 142

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 79

Female signatures: 52

Other male signatures: 8

Unidentified signatures: 3

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.