Senate Unpassed Legislation 1856, Docket 18736, SC1/series 231, Petition of Elisha Murdock

<p>Petition subject: Protection and relief for the citizens of Kansas </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666569">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11666569</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Winchendon </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Maynard Partridge, Winchendon; joint special committee on Kansas Resolutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Elisha Murdock</li><li>Webster Whitney</li><li>Calvin R. Whitman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1856-03-08,1856-03-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 8, 1856 and referred to the joint special committee on Kansas Resolutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 11, 1856 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 51 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51 </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Kansas territory, repeated invasions, Border Men of Missouri, property and provisions destroyed, suffering for the necessaries of life, constitutional provisions for their relief, free state citizens, protection, six months, two volunteer armed regiments </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1856, Docket 18736 </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>