Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry T. Parker

Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858362 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James M. Stone, Charlestown; joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery Selected signatures: Henry T. Parker R.E. Apthorp [Robert East Apthorp] Charles Francis Adams Charles Sumner Allen C. Spooner Samuel Eldridge William C. Nell Louisa E. Gray Robert F. Wallcut Samuel May Jr. Joseph Southwick John M. Spear Henry J. Prentiss Robert R. Crosby Charles K. Whipple Robert Morris William Lloyd Garrison Joseph W. Allyne Sarah Nye Lysander Spooner John P. Coburn Bela Marsh William F. Channing Mary C. Blanchard William C. Brown Thomas R. Sewall Lewis Hayden Henry I. Bowditch Henry W. Williams George P. Atkins Edmund Jackson John T. Sargent Daniel F. Child Theodore Parker Abel Smith Francis Jackson Charles Palmer Eliza F. Eddy Lucius Newell Hervey E. Weston Isaac Barbadoes William C. Knowlton William Hoyt Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 1138 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 705 Female signatures: 231 Other male signatures: 98 Unidentified signatures: 104 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["voters"], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript : Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Appears that petitions were circulated separately; some of the prayers are handwritten; "ward III" on the back of one section 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, Institutiona