House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3107, SC1/series 230, Petition of S. Fay

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005527 Date of creation: 1851-01-20 Petition location: Southborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hon. N.P. Banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives, State House; committee on the judiciary; Nathaniel P. Banks Jr., Waltham Selected signatures:S. Fay Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 17, 1851 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: legal town meeting in Southborough Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Resolution against the fugitive slave laws Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3107 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.