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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481603

Date of creation: 1836-01-01

Petition location: Brimfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Festus Foster, Brimfield; special committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Asa Lincoln
2. Abner Brown
3. Eleazer Lovell
4. Alfred Allen

Actions taken on dates: 1836-02-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1836 and referred to the special committee on the subject

Total signatures: 48

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9844

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.