DOI: 10.7910/dvn/aiuzt
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Henry T. Parker

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:11858362"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858362&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: James M. Stone, Charlestown; joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry T. Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;R.E. Apthorp [Robert East Apthorp]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Francis Adams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Sumner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Allen C. Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Eldridge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa E. Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John M. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph W. Allyne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Nye&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lysander Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Coburn&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bela Marsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William F. Channing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary C. Blanchard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas R. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry I. Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry W. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George P. Atkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theodore Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Palmer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza F. Eddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucius Newell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hervey E. Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Barbadoes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Knowlton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Hoyt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-24,1851-02-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1851 and referred to the joint special committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1851 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1138 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 705 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 231 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 98 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 104 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [males of color], [females of color], ["voters"], ["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: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Appears that petitions were circulated separately; some of the prayers are handwritten; "ward III" on the back of one section &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 &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;