Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of George N. Fletcher

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858350 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on the subject of slavery Selected signatures:George N. FletcherW.L. GreeneL. FletcherEdward Atkinson Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-15,1851-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on the subject of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 11 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 Unidentified signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons 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: Not sure if there are other males or females 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.