Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of John T. Hilton

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858679">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858679</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Brighton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel H. Whiting, Plymouth; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John T. Hilton</li><li>Thomas B. Hilton</li><li>James Newcomb</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1860-01-10,1860-01-12 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 10, 1860 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 12, 1860 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 31 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [males of color], ["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>Additional archivist notes: [I believe this is the famous John T. Hilton, he died in Brighton in 1864] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1860, 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>