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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858779

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Hubbardston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough

Selected signatures:

1. Levi Miles
2. Lysander Crawford
3. Alonzo Hartwell

Legislative action: Received in the House and laid on the table

Total signatures: 112

Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 69

Female signatures: 34

Other male signatures: 6

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, 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.