Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of J.M. Merrick

<p>Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858359">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858359</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Walpole </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Palmer Morey, Walpole; special committee on slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>J.M. Merrick</li><li>Smith Gray</li><li>George H. Newhall</li><li>F.W. Bird [Francis W. Bird?]</li><li>Abby F. Bird</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-05,1851-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 5, 1851 and referred to the special committee on slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 6, 1851 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 116 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85 </p> <p>Female signatures: 4 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 27 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [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: Other males and females separated </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 </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>