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Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858456

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lowell

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the subject of slavery

Selected signatures:

1. J.W. Scribner
2. Stephen Barker Jr.
3. Josiah Corner

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 the subject of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 7, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 98

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 98

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Sent by or to "Stephen Barker Jr."; the label "other persons" is not crossed out, but the column contains a signature with "M.D."/doctor

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.