House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of E.W. Tefft

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029946">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029946</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Adams </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Spencer Shaw, Cummington; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>E.W. Tefft</li><li>William B. Tefft</li><li>Nathaniel McCullock</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-01 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1859 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 23 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 16 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 7 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, others, [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>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: "Believed to be of Adams, Mass." </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected </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>