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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481583

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Drew
2. James Syme
3. James Everett
4. Henry Chamberlin
5. Caleb A. Wall
6. Constant Shepard
7. Eliza Stowell
8. William Hildrup
9. Robert Bond
10. Charles White
11. Edward Southwick
12. Samuel Colton
13. Hiram Gleason
14. John Mason

Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-21,1851-01-30,1851-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1851 and laid on the table and order to be presented and received in the House on January 30, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 31

Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled, order to be presented, received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26

Female signatures: 2

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

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

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162

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.