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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858693

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Newton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel H. Whiting, Plymouth; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. J.H. Stephenson
2. George E. Allen
3. Philemon Stacy

Actions taken on dates: 1860-02-23,1860-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 23, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 24, 1860 and concurred

Total signatures: 147

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 81

Female signatures: 36

Other male signatures: 14

Unidentified signatures: 16

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [other males], ["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: Notes next to signatures

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, leave to withdraw

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.