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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448926

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William D. Coolidge, Boston; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Robert Rantoul Jr.
2. James Rice
3. Charles Mayo
4. William Whiting
5. Anson Peck
6. George Wilmot
7. John Philbrick
8. John Rogers
9. John Spear
10. Charles Sumner
11. Edward Bangs
12. John A. Andrew
13. George Gordon Adams
14. R.E. Apthorp
15. James M. Beckett
16. George Littlefield
17. Sarah Marjoram
18. Mary Williams
19. William Heckle
20. Samuel Cheever
21. Charles Morey
22. John Nelson Walsh
23. Phineas Gay
24. Charles H. Laughton
25. John P. Sprague
26. James Freeman Clarke
27. Daniel Thaxter
28. Charles Channing
29. Lucy H. Horn
30. Charles Townsend
31. Bela Marsh
32. Robert F. Wallcut
33. Samuel May Jr.

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-15,1849-03-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 15, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 16, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 510

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 505

Female signatures: 5

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters, inhabitants, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: [Many additional documents in folder, including calling card for John Spear; female signature crossed out at top, Sarah A. Murphy, and some female signature included despite being labeled as legal voters; signatures indicate whether the signer has "paid", possibly because of John Spear's circular request, payment; petition backed with and connected to a canvas material]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A

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.