Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Daniel Ricketson

Petition: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858392 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: New Bedford Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on slavery Top signatures:Daniel RicketsonLeonard CollinsMary Remington Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-14,1851-02-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 15, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 257 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 118 Female signatures: 102 Un identified signatures: 37 Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [females of color], [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archiv ist notes: Partially separated legal voters from others; lead petitioner is prominent, information online about him including "shanty society"? 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.