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Petition subject: Against the repeal of the personal liberty laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668839

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Amesbury, Salisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William S. Pettingill, Salisbury; committee on the personal liberty laws

Selected signatures:

1. John Greenleaf Whittier
2. George Turner
3. James W. Briggs
4. Joseph Morrill

Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 19, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate and laid on the table

Total signatures: 157

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 157

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861

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.