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Petition: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858792

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Bridgewater

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis M. Vaughan, Middleborough

Top signatures:

1. David W. Wilbar
2. Josiah Cotton Cushing
3. Robert E. Smith

Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28

Leg
islative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1861.

Total signatures: 29

Legislative action summary: Received

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female signatures: 11

Other male signatures: 1

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: Copied signatures

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 Harvar
d University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.