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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Barnabas Edwards

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Barnabas Edwards
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/2COCE
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481646

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Selected signatures:

  1. Barnabas Edwards
  2. Thomas Whittemore
  3. John B. Dods
  4. George Bazin
  5. William Griswold
  6. John Low
  7. Henry Brown
  8. Benjamin Nourse
  9. Benjamin Whittemore
  10. Charles Spear
  11. Lemuel Willis
  12. Samuel Mudge
  13. Joseph Hathaway
  14. Massena Ballou
  15. Hosea Ballou

Total signatures: 35

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: [lead signer not at top of petition]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312

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.
 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
Barnabas Edwards
Benjamin Nourse
Benjamin Whittemore
Charles Spear
George Bazin
Henry Brown
Hosea Ballou
John B. Dods
John Low
Joseph Hathaway
Lemuel Willis
Massena Ballou
Samuel Mudge
Thomas Whittemore
William Griswold
inhabitants
No
35
35