Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13229, SC1/series 231, Petition of Mark Trafton

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858477">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858477</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Wood, Plymouth; select committee on the petition of John H. Loring and others </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Mark Trafton</li><li>John H. Twombly</li><li>Thomas H. Mudge</li><li>Cyrus L. Eastman</li><li>Benjamin Paine</li><li>Phineas Crandall</li><li>James Porter</li><li>William Rice</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-05-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on May 27, 1851 and referred to the select committee on the petition of John H. Loring and others and ordered to be printed </p> <p>Total signatures: 107 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent to be printed </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 107 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: clergymen of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Massachusetts </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: religious </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13229 </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>