House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Samuel May

Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029954 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Moses Kimball, Boston; committee on federal relations Selected signatures: Samuel May William Lloyd Garrison John C. Tirrell Daniel Thaxter Charles A. Noyes Bela Marsh Caroline F. Spurrell Wendell P. Garrison Helen E. Garrison George H. Thayer Charles M. Kimball George H. Otis Henrietta Sargent Coffin Pitts Cyrus Foster Cesar Gardner Edmund Jackson Daniel C. Eddy Francis Jackson William C. Nell Charles K. Whipple Thomas M. Hathaway Robert F. Wallcut Thomas B. Rice Henry J. Prentiss Frederic H. Henshaw Adams Twitchell John S. Rock William B. Brown James B. Yerrinton William B. Earle Henry C. Wright Robert R. Crosby Austin Bearse Richard J. Hinton John B. Bailey Hannah Tufts Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-09,1859-02-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1859 and concurred Total signatures: 619 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 356 Female signatures: 110 Other male signatures: 22 Unidentified signatures: 131 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, others, non voters, [females], [other males], [males of color] 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: M.D. next to signatures, including a woman named "Martha Freeman," includes notes, signature removed 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.