House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Beecher

Abstract

<p>Petition: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029941">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029941</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1859-01-15 </p> <p>Petition location: Georgetown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edwin B. George, Groveland; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Top signatures:<ol><li>Charles Beecher</li><li>Henry Chaplin</li><li>John Bagley</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-01-19,1859-01-20 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 19, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 20, 1859 and concurred. </p> <p>Total signatures: 532 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent for concurrence, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 274 </p> <p>Female signatures: 207 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 6 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 45 </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, men, women, legal voters, [females], [other males], ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Includes bible quote at top, note at bottom </p> <p>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.</p>

Citation: Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, 1859, "House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Beecher", http://dx.doi.org/10.7910/DVN/YVLIU Harvard Dataverse Network;Massachusetts Archives. Boston, Mass. [Distributor] V1 [Version]