Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Benjamin Tirrell

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858296 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Weymouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. White, Weymouth; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Selected signatures:Benjamin TirrellJ.N. ParkerTirzah S. Tirrell Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-14,1851-01-28,1851-01-29 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1851 and laid on the table and received in the House on January 28, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 29, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 49 Legislative action summary: Received, laid on table, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39 Female signatures: 8 Other male signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males] 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: Reverend next to a signature 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.