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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481426

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Hingham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Joshua Wilder
2. Joseph Jacobs
3. Matilda Fuller

Actions taken on dates: 1848-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1848 and referred to a committee

Total signatures: 17

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 13

Female signatures: 3

Unidentified signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: [newspaper; includes petition wrapper for several petitions]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157

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.