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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481568

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Tyringham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Branning, Tyringham

Selected signatures:

1. R.W. Keeler
2. Albert Fuller
3. Harrison Howland
4. Abigail Phippin
5. Julias Fuller

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-20

Legislative action: Tabeled on February 20, 1850

Total signatures: 113

Legislative action summary: Tabeled

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 59

Female signatures: 54

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: Reverends

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525

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.