Senate Unpassed Legislation 1861, leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of David W. Wilbar

<p>Petition subject: Against slave hunting </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858792">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11858792</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Bridgewater </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis M. Vaughan, Middleborough </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>David W. Wilbar</li><li>Josiah Cotton Cushing</li><li>Robert E. Smith</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1861-01-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 28, 1861 </p> <p>Total signatures: 29 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 </p> <p>Female signatures: 11 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters, other adults, [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: Copied signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1861, leave to withdraw </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>