Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Baxter Newton

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858419 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Leverett Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Erastus Andrews, Montague; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Selected signatures:Baxter NewtonEdward JonesWarren Rice Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-31,1851-02-01 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 12 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 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.