DOI: 10.7910/dvn/erala
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9863, SC1/series 231, Petition of George Odiorne

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Treatment of citizens in other states &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148861"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148861&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: Seth Whitmarsh, Bristol; several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Odiorne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin V. Finch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Gamaliel Bradford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Lothrop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Light&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Kimball&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Taylor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1836-03-22,1836-03-25,1836-03-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 22, 1836 and laid on the table to be printed and received in the Senate on March 25, 1836 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 25, 1836 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on the table, received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 13 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, not as abolitionists, ["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;: Manuscript &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: federal constitution, heavy losses, cruel treatment, deprivation of their liberty for life, direct violation of the avowed purposes of our Union, justice, laws, Georgia, South Carolina, North Carolina, southern states, on board any vessel, lodged in jail, imprisonment, prison, southern ports, freedom, sold at public auction, jail fees, sold into slavery, bondage, Mary Smith, a free colored woman, return from New Orleans, servant, put to death, fines, schooner Butler, Captain Carter, Fall River, about to sail from New Inlet North Carolina, trial, condemnation to death, special acts, danger of abduction or assassination, 1831, editor or publisher of a certain paper called the Liberator, published in the town of Boston, arrest, prosecution, utter, publish or circulate, circulation, or any other paper, circular, pamphlet, letter or address of seditious character, warrant, Thomas Stocks, Asbury Hull, Wilson Lumpkin, repeal, none of your petitioners being connected with any antislavery society &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9863 &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;