Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Nathaniel Barney

<p>Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858444">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858444</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obed Swain, Nantucket; joint select committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Nathaniel Barney</li><li>Eliza Barney</li><li>John H. Shaw</li><li>Arnold Chase</li><li>Lydia Boston</li><li>Wesley Berry</li><li>Lydia Green</li><li>Binajah Boston</li><li>John Augustus Barber</li><li>Mary Berry</li><li>Eunice F. Ross</li><li>William R. Robinson</li><li>A.F. Boston [Absalom F. Boston]</li><li>Caroline D. Clough</li><li>Cyrus Mumford</li><li>Jane Wheeler</li><li>Sarah Ross</li><li>George R. Pierce</li><li>Dinah Gardner</li><li>Mary Ann Folger</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-28,1851-01-29 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1851 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 207 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 64 </p> <p>Female signatures: 125 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 18 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["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: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 </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>