House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2343, SC1/series 230, Petition of Roby R. Safford

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029681">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029681</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Fitchburg </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Mason, Fitchburg; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Roby R. Safford</li><li>Sarah S. Spaulding</li><li>Levi Farnsworth</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-03 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 3, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 54 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 38 </p> <p>Female signatures: 16 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [females], ["other persons"] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </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: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2343 </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>