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Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858356

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: North Brookfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Adams Jr., North Brookfield; special committee on that part of the governor's message relating to slavery

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Duncan
2. Freeman Walker
3. Emily P. Walker

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-26,1851-02-27

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 26, 1851 and referred to the special committee on that part of the governor's message relating to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 27, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 108

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 59

Female signatures: 31

Other male signatures: 4

Unidentified signatures: 14

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

Additional archivist notes: X's next to some signatures in the legal voters column and they were not counted by the legislator, not clear why

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.