Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin Phelps

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858294">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858294</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Becket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin Flagg, Worcester; Austin Messinger, Norton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Benjamin Phelps</li><li>David McElwain</li><li>Cynthia M. Barnes</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 111 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 49 </p> <p>Female signatures: 39 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 9 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 13 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], ["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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 </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>