Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Andrew Stetson

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858272 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Duxbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Selected signatures:Andrew StetsonLewis WinsorStephen Bradford Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-05,1851-02-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 5, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 6, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 78 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50 Female signatures: 28 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents 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.