Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Francis Jackson

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858765">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858765</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles W. Slack, Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Francis Jackson</li><li>Samuel May</li><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>Helen E. Garrison</li><li>William Boyce Jr.</li><li>Martha B. Goodrich</li><li>Abigail Kent</li><li>Hannah B. Emerson</li><li>John Rogers</li><li>Daniel Thaxter</li><li>Abby May</li><li>Mary May</li><li>Caroline C. Thayer</li><li>Edmund Jackson</li><li>George T. Garrison</li><li>C. Henry Adams</li><li>Robert R. Crosby</li><li>James Redpath</li><li>Charles H. Codman</li><li>Benjamin Weeden</li><li>Wendell P. Garrison</li><li>Mary Wallcut</li><li>Coffin Pitts</li><li>Harriet Hayden</li><li>John P. Coburn</li><li>Jonas W. Clark</li><li>Simpson H. Lewis</li><li>Mary Roberts</li><li>Martha Prentiss</li><li>Henry J. Prentiss</li><li>George Winslow</li><li>Caroline H. Dall</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Referred appropriately </p> <p>Total signatures: 293 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 143 </p> <p>Female signatures: 85 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 16 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 49 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] </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>Additional archivist notes: One female signature in left column; note next to signature, "not the proper time to repeal the personal liberty law" </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw </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>