House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Freeman Morton

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029970 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Plymouth Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William T. Davis, Plymouth; committee on federal relations Selected signatures:Freeman MortonWilliam A. PerkinsAlfred W. Cole Actions taken on dates: 1859-03-08,1859-03-09,1859-03-09 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 8, 1859 and March 9, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 9, 1859 and concurred Total signatures: 117 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 45 Female signatures: 54 Unidentified signatures: 18 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not 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: House Unpassed 1859, rejected 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.