Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13229, SC1/series 231, Petition of Mark Trafton

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858477 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Wood, Plymouth; select committee on the petition of John H. Loring and others Selected signatures:Mark TraftonJohn H. TwomblyThomas H. MudgeCyrus L. EastmanBenjamin PainePhineas CrandallJames PorterWilliam Rice Actions taken on dates: 1851-05-27 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 27, 1851 and referred to the select committee on the petition of John H. Loring and others and ordered to be printed Total signatures: 107 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent to be printed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 107 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Massachusetts Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: religious Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13229 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.