Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Eli Belknap

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858315 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Hopkinton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on slavery Selected signatures:Eli BelknapAbram CrooksWillard Woodard Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05 Legislative action: Received on February 5, 1851 Total signatures: 141 Legislative action summary: Received Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 110 Female signatures: 13 Other male signatures: 12 Unidentified signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males] 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.