Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Franklin Benjamin Sanborn

Petition subject: Against slave hunting Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858793 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Concord Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obadiah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the personal liberty law Selected signatures:Franklin Benjamin SanbornWilliam WhitingFrancis BigelowJohn Brown Jr.Samuel BarrettLeonard SeaverAbbie M. AlcottElizabeth P. PeabodyAnne WhitingJohn GarrisonCynthia ThoreauSophia E. Thoreau Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty law Total signatures: 111 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58 Female signatures: 53 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["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 1861, leave to withdraw 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.