DOI: 10.7910/dvn/wkq1fk
title: Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of William H. Logan

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against the repeal of the personal liberty laws &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668866"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668866&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Obediah W. Albee, Marlborough; committee on the personal liberty laws &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matilda Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances Moore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth C. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sampson Talbot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza A. Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emily Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.M. Lawton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jacob Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Calman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Fatal&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lorenzo Crockendale&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Howard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alfred Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha A. Brandon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nancy P. Scott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah M. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Potter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David D. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josephine Wye&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emeline Crockendale&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Crockendale&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Marcellus Gilbert&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matilda Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;May Darling&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann M. Moore&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Powell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma J. Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Katy Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Lappe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Woodpath&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Hues&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catherine L. Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Bush Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellen West&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amelia Johnston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Dixson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Matilda Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adalaide Nichols&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Johnston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sydney Daisy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.E.B. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John J. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Georgeanne O. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Meek&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Bradley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Hill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Eston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Eston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;B.F. Perry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Almir Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Jane Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Jane Tayler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George M. Monroe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucille S. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathaniel F. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Miss Mary Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah E. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mr. M.H. Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mrs. Mary Anderson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frank H. Lawton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.W. Lawton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;W.B. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amelia Silence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Bush&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Towel&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-29,1861-01-30 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1861 and referred to the committee on the personal liberty laws and received in the Senate on January 30, 1861 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 150 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 55 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 56 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 39 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1861, c.91, passed March 25, 1861 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;