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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Asa Pickering

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Asa Pickering
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AXDLE
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858476

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Bellingham

Selected signatures:

  1. Asa Pickering
  2. George Nelson
  3. Abigail Thayer

Total signatures: 251

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 155

Female signatures: 65

Other male signatures: 22

Unidentified signatures: 9

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [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

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
Abigail Thayer
Asa Pickering
George Nelson
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
others
column separated
No
65
155
22
251
9