Senate Unpassed Legislation 1842, Docket 11156, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles T. Torrey

<p>Petition subject: Arrest </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381152">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381152</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1842-02-15 </p> <p>Petition location: Washington D.C. </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Appleton Howe, Norfolk; several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles T. Torrey</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1842-02-23 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 23, 1842 and referred to a committee </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, a citizen of Boston </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Concerning his arrest in Annapolis, Maryland, reporter for the Massachusetts Spy, newspaper, public convention of slaveholders, jail, imprisonment, private papers, letters, examination, without any charge of crime, warrant, detained six days, judge, justice, fines, sureties, redress, outrage upon his personal rights, citizenship, Declaration of Independence </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11156 </p> <p>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.</p>