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Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of John C. Fish

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Title Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of John C. Fish
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DF6HL
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670460

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Barnstable

Selected signatures:

  1. John C. Fish
  2. G.Y. Crocker
  3. Nathan Cobman

Total signatures: 40

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 40

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855

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
Printed
G.Y. Crocker
John C. Fish
Nathan Cobman
citizens
legal voters
No
40
40