Senate Unpassed Legislation 1860, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of David Lee Child

<p>Petition: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858648">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858648</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Wayland </p> <p>Top signatures:<ol><li>David Lee Child</li><li>James Draper</li><li>Lydia Maria Child</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 297 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 116 </p> <p>Female signatures: 146 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 24 </p>
<p>Unidentified signatures: 11 </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, non-voters, [females], [other males] </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: Som
e signatures have the note "copied from the original paper"; notes next to signatures qualifying the text and odd placement of "mrs"; two sections of non-voters on the right; appears to have "rev." (for reverend?) next to a "mrs"
</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>