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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005523

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Roxbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph N. Brewer, Roxbury; committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Ellis
2. Catharine M. Ellis
3. Emily W. Wilson

Actions taken on dates: 1851-04-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 14, 1851 and referred to the committee on slavery and laid on the table

Total signatures: 57

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33

Female signatures: 15

Other male signatures: 2

Unidentified signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males]

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: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 2724

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.