House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Oliver C. Gardner

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029956">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029956</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket, South Groton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Peleg Ray, Nantucket; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Oliver C. Gardner</li><li>Julia A. Bunker</li><li>Hannah Maria Fosdick</li><li>Anna Gardner</li><li>Charles Folger</li><li>Mary Coffin</li><li>Mary Sanford Mitchell</li><li>Louisa Mitchell</li><li>Wesley Berry</li><li>Mary Berry</li><li>Paulina Elliott</li><li>Sarah Ross</li><li>Lizzie Barber</li><li>Ann Cooper</li><li>Patience Cooper</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-31 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1859 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 204 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 47 </p> <p>Female signatures: 150 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 7 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], [males of color] </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: not 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: House Unpassed 1859, rejected </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>