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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Hervey Fittz

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Hervey Fittz
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/BX5KC
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Against slave hunting

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858772

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Middleborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis M. Vaughan, Middleborough

Selected signatures:

  1. Hervey Fittz
  2. George G. Stillman
  3. Elisha C. Sprague

Actions taken on dates: 1861-02-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1861

Total signatures: 155

Legislative action summary: Received

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 118

Female signatures: 23

Other male signatures: 6

Unidentified signatures: 8

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
received
Printed
Francis M. Vaughan, Middleborough
Elisha C. Sprague
George G. Stillman
Hervey Fittz
citizens
females
legal voters
other adults
other males
others
column separated
No
23
118
6
155
8