DOI: 10.7910/dvn/rteos
title: Passed Acts; St. 1855, c.489, SC1/series 229, Petition of Robert East Apthorp

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Fugitive slave laws &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520838"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10520838&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John L. Swift, Boston; committee on the judiciary; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert East Apthorp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;C.K. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Thorp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Noah Litchfield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas C. Bacon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel E. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa May Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby May Alcott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen E. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George T. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Gray Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edwin G. Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;F.B. Sanborn [Franklin Benjamin Sanborn?]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-24,1855-01-30,1855-01-31 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1855 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on January 30, 1855 and referred to the committee on federal relations and received in the Senate on January 31, 1855 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1510 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 789 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 326 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 68 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 327 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [females of color], [males of color], ["others"] &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;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: 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: [female signatures on left hand side] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.489, passed May 21, 1855 &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;