Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry B. Knowlton

Petition: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858406 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Manchester Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Girdler II, Manchester; joint special committee on slavery Top signatures:Henry B. KnowltonGeorge W. BaileyCaroline S. Smit h Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 182 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 118 Female signatures: 32 Other male signatures: 23 Unidentified signatures: 9 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["voters"], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additiona l archivist notes: "Thomas B, Manchester" on the back; possibly contains an age/minors 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.