Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry O. Remington

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858298 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: New Bedford Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on slavery Selected signatures:Henry O. RemingtonMary Ann C. RemingtonAnna M. Bailey Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-12,1851-02-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 13, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 188 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85 Female signatures: 70 Unidentified signatures: 33 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Partially segregated by legal voters and other persons; signature behind paper, "William Barker Jr." 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.