Senate Unpassed Legislation 1839, Docket 10525, SC1/series 231, Petition of Seth Field

<p>Petition subject: Against the admission of Florida and slave states </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858099">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858099</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: West Brookfield </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Sylvanus Thomas, Brookfield; committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Seth Field</li><li>Silas Henry</li><li>Harrison Barnes</li><li>Francis Stone</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-28,1839-01-29 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1839 and referred to the committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1839 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 85 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal voters </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1839, Docket 10525 </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>