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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481444

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Fairhaven

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Mendell, Fairhaven; committee on the judiciary; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Joseph Davis
2. Amos Rogers
3. John Bunker
4. Mary Tompkins
5. Lydia Hempton

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-14,1849-02-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on February 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject

Total signatures: 93

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50

Female signatures: 35

Other male signatures: 2

Unidentified signatures: 6

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: [payment?]

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.