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

Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858409 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Newburyport Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Richard Plumer; John Girdler II, Manchester; joint special committee on slavery Selected signatures:Benjamin NobleJohn T. SpoffordSamuel HarrisThomas Butler Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the joint special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 43 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 43 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Includes tallies of "voters" and "others" on the back, but referring to another Newburyport petition; includes notes next to signatures 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.