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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668831

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Westminster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph W. Forbush, Westminster; committee on federal resolution

Selected signatures:

1. George Miles
2. Benson Bigelow
3. Lucinda Miles
4. Lucy Bigelow

Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-23,1861-01-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 23, 1861 and referred to the committee on federal resolution and laid on the table and received in the Senate on January 24, 1861 and concurred

Total signatures: 117

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53

Female signatures: 64

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861

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.