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Petition: Fugitive slave laws

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858237

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Wrentham

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

Top signatures:

1. Timothy Hancock
2. Ezra N. Blake
3. Sarah Hancock

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06

Legislative ac
tion: Received in the Senate on February 5, 1851 and referred to the joint committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 6, 1851 and concurred.

Total signatures: 59

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

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

Female signatures: 32

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory co
lumn format: column separated

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

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.