Passed Resolves; Resolves 1845, c.39, SC1/series 228, Petition of William L. Mather

<p>Petition subject: Protesting illegal detentions of people in territories and slavery in Washington D.C. </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670573">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670573</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Concord </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William L. Mather</li><li>Josiah Bartlett</li><li>Barzillai Frost</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Ruth Emerson</li><li>Sophia Thoreau</li><li>Jane Thoreau</li><li>Maria Thoreau</li><li>Elizabeth Shattuck</li><li>Helen Thoreau</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-11,1845-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on March 6, 1845 and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas </p> <p>Total signatures: 65 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 16 </p> <p>Female signatures: 39 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 10 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females] </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: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1845, c.39, passed February 22, 1845 </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>