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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joshua Spooner

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joshua Spooner
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/DWTSP
 
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:11858338

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Selected signatures:

  1. Joshua Spooner
  2. Ira McFarland
  3. Charles Hadwen

Total signatures: 47

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

Female signatures: 17

Other male signatures: 2

Unidentified signatures: 1

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: [Basing lead petitioner on back information]

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
Charles Hadwen
Ira McFarland
Joshua Spooner
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
other persons
column separated
No
17
27
2
47
1