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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858357

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Melrose

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Isaac Emerson
2. R.W. Emerson
3. Hiram Whitney

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-06,1851-03-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 6, 1851 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 7, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 36

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Potentially Ralph Waldo Emerson, he had a summer home in Melrose

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162

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.