Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of W.L. Greene

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858403 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the subject of slavery Selected signatures:W.L. GreeneGeorge N. FletcherNathan P. FletcherEdward Atkinson Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-12,1851-02-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1851 and referred to the committee on the subject of slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 13, 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, ["others"] 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: Lead petitioner is not in the legal voters column 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.