House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 2725, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Ellis

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11005524 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Roxbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joseph N. Brewer, Roxbury; committee on slavery Selected signatures:Charles EllisCatharine M. EllisEmily W. Wilson Actions taken on dates: 1851-04-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 14, 1851 and referred to the committee on slavery and laid on the table Total signatures: 55 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, laid on the table Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32 Female signatures: 14 Other male signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 7 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [\"others\"] 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: For further safeguards of rights and liberties because of the fugitive slave law Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 2725 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.