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

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858281 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Newburyport Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Girdler II, Manchester; joint special committee on slavery Selected signatures:Benjamin NobleJohn T. SpoffordSamuel Harris Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-07,1851-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 7, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1851 and concurred. Total signatures: 42 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Next to one signature: \"b. 1765\" 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.