House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Amaziah Delano

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029887">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029887</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Fairhaven </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Amaziah Delano</li><li>Noah Spooner</li><li>Mary Shove</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 43 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 </p> <p>Female signatures: 23 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, [females] </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: Includes ages </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected </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>