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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858362

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Henry T. Parker
2. R.E. Apthorp [Robert East Apthorp]
3. Charles Francis Adams
4. Charles Sumner
5. Allen C. Spooner
6. Samuel Eldridge
7. William C. Nell
8. Louisa E. Gray
9. Robert F. Wallcut
10. Samuel May Jr.
11. Joseph Southwick
12. John M. Spear
13. Henry J. Prentiss
14. Robert R. Crosby
15. Charles K. Whipple
16. Robert Morris
17. William Lloyd Garrison
18. Joseph W. Allyne
19. Sarah Nye
20. Lysander Spooner
21. John P. Coburn
22. Bela Marsh
23. William F. Channing
24. Mary C. Blanchard
25. William C. Brown
26. Thomas R. Sewall
27. Lewis Hayden
28. Henry I. Bowditch
29. Henry W. Williams
30. George P. Atkins
31. Edmund Jackson
32. John T. Sargent
33. Daniel F. Child
34. Theodore Parker
35. Abel Smith
36. Francis Jackson
37. Charles Palmer
38. Eliza F. Eddy
39. Lucius Newell
40. Hervey E. Weston
41. Isaac Barbadoes
42. William C. Knowlton
43. William Hoyt

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 1138

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 705

Female signatures: 231

Other male signatures: 98

Unidentified signatures: 104

Female only signatures: No

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

Additional archivist notes: Appears that petitions were circulated separately; some of the prayers are handwritten; "ward III" on the back of one section

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.