Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of John Parker

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670422">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670422</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Oakham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David S. Ross, Oakham; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Parker</li><li>Albert Spooner</li><li>Albert S. Conant</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 70 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 62 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 8 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, [other males] </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: 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>