DOI: 10.7910/dvn/eeief
title: Passed Acts; St. 1861, c.91, SC1/series 229, Petition of Henry Mitchell

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:10668865"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10668865&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;Henry Mitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;R.M. Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Ann Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John V. de Grasse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Burr&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Tyler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph L. Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George L. Ruffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa M. Jacobs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet A. Jacobs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Oliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonas W. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Thomas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Darbe Vassell [Darby Vassall?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simpson Lewis&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: 414 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 143 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 135 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 136 &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;Additional archivist notes: Two texts, signatures on front and back; includes note: "obtained in church, and no paper available" to explain signatures on the back, religious &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;