Senate Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 13162, SC1/series 231, Petition of Baxter Newton

<p>Petition subject: To protect rights and liberties of Commonwealth inhabitants </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858419">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858419</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Leverett </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Erastus Andrews, Montague; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Baxter Newton</li><li>Edward Jones</li><li>Warren Rice</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-31,1851-02-01 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1851 and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to slavery and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1851 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 12 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1851, Docket 13162 </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>