House Unpassed Legislation 1859, rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Aaron Foster

<p>Petition subject: Against the rendition of fugitive slaves </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029959">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11029959</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Charlemont </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Carver Hotchkiss, Franklin; committee on federal relations </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Aaron Foster</li><li>Henry Giles</li><li>Phinehas Field</li><li>R.H. Leavitt [Roger Hooker Leavitt]</li><li>William H. Leavitt</li><li>Hart Leavitt</li><li></li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1859-02-01,1859-02-02 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 1, 1859 and referred to the committee on federal relations and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 2, 1859 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 20 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, ["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>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: House Unpassed 1859, rejected </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>