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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481326

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Seekonk

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; special committee

Selected signatures:

1. Rufus Bliss
2. Lydia E. Bliss
3. Daniel Cooper
4. Welcome Leonard
5. Lydia Kent

Total signatures: 26

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 9

Female signatures: 16

Unidentified signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [other males], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: 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.