Senate Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 13056, SC1/series 231, Petition of Daniel Otis

<p>Petition subject: Secession from the Union </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858223">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858223</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: South Scituate </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Pliny Merrick, Worcester; Reverend Samuel May Jr., Boston, General Agent Massachusetts Anti-Slavery Society, care of Robert F. Walcutt, 25 Cornhill </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Daniel Otis</li><li>Thomas Jones</li><li>Willard Torrey</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 28 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, others, [other males], ["other"] </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 13056 </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>