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Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029896

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: West Boylston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Mr. May [Samuel May]

Selected signatures:

1. Washington Fairbanks
2. Henry Loring
3. Cornelia S. Sawyer

Total signatures: 90

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 29

Female signatures: 61

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, males, females, [females]

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: Includes note next to first signature, not counted because included on previous petition

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected

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.