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Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858788

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lawrence

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the personal liberty law

Selected signatures:

1. Nathan T. Wood
2. Ebenezer Burbank
3. Philip Sargent

Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty law

Total signatures: 176

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 61

Female signatures: 59

Other male signatures: 25

Unidentified signatures: 31

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

Additional archivist notes: Reverend and "Methodist" next to signatures

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.