House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joseph Warren Cross

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029994">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029994</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: West Boylston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Martin, West Boylston, Mass.; Bigelow; [Ralph E. Bigelow, Paxton?]; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Warren Cross</li><li>John N. West</li><li>James H. Thomas</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-14,1859-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1859 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 118 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 118 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Reverend </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>