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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481349

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Elijah Cobb, Brewster; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Perley King
2. Eli F. Burnham
3. Amos Trask
4. Asa Fairbanks
5. Frederick S. Cabot
6. Mary H. Lincoln
7. Joseph Noyes
8. Otis B. Norrill
9. John Curtis Jr.
10. Goodhue Ambrose
11. George Adams
12. George W. Simonds
13. Silas Leonard

Actions taken on dates: 1844-01-31

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1844 and referred to the committee on that subject

Total signatures: 27

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1844, Docket 1410

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.