Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joel P. Hewins

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858760">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858760</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Sharon </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: H. Augustus Lothrop, Sharon; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joel P. Hewins</li><li>Moses Richards</li><li>Charles Winship</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-15,1861-01-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1861 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1861 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 33 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters </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>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 1861, leave to withdraw </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>