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Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Moses Black Jr.

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Title Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Moses Black Jr.
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/6UDMY
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481633

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Danvers

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Prince, Essex

Selected signatures:

  1. Moses Black Jr.
  2. Asa Sawyer Jr.
  3. John Patten
  4. John Trask

Total signatures: 32

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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 1843, Docket 11312

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
Printed
John Prince, Essex
Asa Sawyer Jr.
John Patten
John Trask
Moses Black Jr.
citizens
inhabitants
No
32
32