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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481598

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Uxbridge

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. T.B. Whiting
2. Charles Wing
3. Willis Brown

Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08,1851-02-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 123

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 123

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["legal voters"], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Uxbridge, Mendon, Blackstone

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162

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.