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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of David W. Wilbar

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of David W. Wilbar
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AWS1C
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

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.


 
Subject received
Printed
Francis M. Vaughan, Middleborough
David W. Wilbar
Josiah Cotton Cushing
Robert E. Smith
citizens
females
legal voters
other adults
other males
column separated
11
17
1
29