House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3114, SC1/series 230, Petition of William W. Allen

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005528 Date of creation: 1851-04-10 Petition location: Baltimore, Maryland Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: To the Hon. Mr. Banks, Speaker of the House of Representatives in the State Government, Massachusetts, Boston, Ms.; Nathaniel P. Banks Jr., Waltham Selected signatures:William W. Allen Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a graduate of Cam Uny in 1817; and approved for preaching in Boston June 1820 Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: William Winthrop Allen, graduate of Harvard in 1817 and 1820; Requesting that the funds he requested be granted immediately with reference to the fugitive slave laws Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3114 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.