Senate Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 12967, SC1/series 231, Petition of Seth Williamson

<p>Petition subject: Support for Wilmot Proviso and against the fugitive slave law and Daniel Webster </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381171">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381171</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Robert F. Wallcut; Joseph T. Buckingham, Middlesex; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Seth Williamson</li><li>George M. Baker</li><li>Edward Sprague</li><li>Nathaniel H. Whiting</li><li>William Dunham</li><li>Richard Beebe</li><li>Darwin D.F. Douglass</li><li>Nelson Elmer</li><li>William Whiting</li><li>Minot Pratt</li><li>John Brown Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-04-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 9, 1850 and laid on the table and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 274 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 274 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [other males] </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: Towns next to names including Marshfield, Springfield, Warren, South Gardner, Concord, Rockport, Roxbury, Hingham, South Weymouth; includes note </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 12967 </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>