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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858721

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Upton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry D. Johnson, Upton; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Velorous Taft
2. George E. Gore
3. Harvey Ruggles

Actions taken on dates: 1860-01-24,1860-01-25

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 25, 1860 and concurred

Total signatures: 57

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Not sure on first petitioner's last name, basing it upon census records/historical houses in Upton

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.