Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Nathan T. Wood

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858788">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858788</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Lawrence </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the personal liberty law </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathan T. Wood</li><li>Ebenezer Burbank</li><li>Philip Sargent</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty law </p> <p>Total signatures: 176 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 61 </p> <p>Female signatures: 59 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 25 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 31 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [other males], ["others"] </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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Reverend and "Methodist" next to signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw </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>