DOI: 10.7910/dvn/r7e1q
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Samuel May

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029954"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029954&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: Moses Kimball, Boston; committee on federal relations &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John C. Tirrell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Thaxter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles A. Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bela Marsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline F. Spurrell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell P. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen E. Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles M. Kimball&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George H. Otis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Coffin Pitts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cyrus Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cesar Gardner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel C. Eddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas M. Hathaway&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas B. Rice&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederic H. Henshaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adams Twitchell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John S. Rock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Earle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry C. Wright&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Austin Bearse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard J. Hinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John B. Bailey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Tufts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-09,1859-02-10 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 9, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1859 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 619 &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): 356 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 110 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 22 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 131 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other persons, others, non voters, [females], [other males], [males 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;: 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: M.D. next to signatures, including a woman named "Martha Freeman," includes notes, signature removed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1859, rejected &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;