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House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of W.W. Boardman

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of W.W. Boardman
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/7WUAV
 
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:13481348

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Saugus

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

  1. W.W. Boardman
  2. David Flint
  3. Lot Cheever
  4. Benjamin Mansfield
  5. John Armitage

Actions taken on dates: 1844-01-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1844 and referred to a committee

Total signatures: 32

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
received
referred
Manuscript
Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; several names from a committee
Benjamin Mansfield
David Flint
John Armitage
Lot Cheever
W.W. Boardman
citizens
No
32
32