House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Robert Pierce

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029882">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029882</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: East Douglas </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Robert Pierce</li><li>Luther Wing</li><li>Amos G. Yates</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 25 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Possibly includes minor males?; 2 reverends, note on town not being definite </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>