House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Beecher

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029941 Date of creation: 1859-01-15 Petition location: Georgetown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edwin B. George, Groveland; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Charles BeecherHenry ChaplinJohn Bagley Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-19,1859-01-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 19, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 20, 1859 and concurred Total signatures: 532 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 274 Female signatures: 207 Other male signatures: 6 Unidentified signatures: 45 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, men, women, legal voters, [females], [other males], ["others"] 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 bible quote at top, note at bottom 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.