Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Phineas Field

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858295 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Leverett Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Claflin, Hopkinton; committee on slavery Selected signatures:Phineas FieldBenjamin BemanCaroline Beman Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05 Legislative action: Referred to the committee on slavery on February 5, 1851 Total signatures: 82 Legislative action summary: Referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 43 Female signatures: 39 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 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.