House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Wood

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029920 Date of creation: 1859-01 Petition location: Agawam Selected signatures:Charles WoodEunice FiskMary S. Cooper Total signatures: 214 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 117 Female signatures: 97 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Bad glue damage; signatures not completely separated Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected 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.