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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448949

Date of creation: 1850-01

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William C. Starbuck, Nantucket; committee on prisons

Selected signatures:

1. Heman Crocker
2. Lydia Crocker
3. Christopher Hussey
4. Zenas Fish
5. Rachel Gardner
6. Edward Mitchell
7. Lydia Mitchell
8. Maria Mitchell
9. Freeman Atkins
10. Absalom F. Boston
11. Peter Folger
12. Sarah Grew
13. Nancy Rand
14. Martha Sherman
15. Charles Paddock

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-11,1850-02-11

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 11, 1850 and referred to the committee on prisons and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1850 and laid on the table

Total signatures: 77

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, tabeled

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

Female signatures: 20

Unidentified signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 12973

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.