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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edward B. Perkins

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Edward B. Perkins
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/CWA59
 
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:11858774

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Salem

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

Selected signatures:

  1. Edward B. Perkins
  2. William Proctor
  3. Charles C. Perkins

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 and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 25

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 22

Other male signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [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
referred
sent for concurrence
Printed
Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the personal liberty law
Charles C. Perkins
Edward B. Perkins
William Proctor
citizens
legal voters
other adults
other males
others
column separated
No
22
3
25