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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670468

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Ashfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston; committee on federal relations

Selected signatures:

1. Hosea Blake
2. David Gray
3. Elijah Field

Legislative action: Reference to the committee on federal relations requested

Total signatures: 58

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, ["others"]

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.