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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481550

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Somerset

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Bradford Pratt, Dighton

Selected signatures:

1. Henry B. Parsell
2. Enoch Chace
3. Samuel Purinton
4. Abby Purinton
5. Phebe Winslow

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-15

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1850 and tabeled

Total signatures: 77

Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 48

Female signatures: 22

Other male signatures: 6

Unidentified signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [other males]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: [outside wrapper only counts legal voters]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525

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.