Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of George D. Ryder

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670444">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670444</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: West Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Paul Townsend, West Bridgewater; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>George D. Ryder</li><li>Joseph Kingman</li><li>Richard F. Thayer</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 77 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 77 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, 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: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 </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>