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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481396

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Eliza Taft, Dedham, Mass.; Charles A. French, Stoughton; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. Edmund Quincy
2. Edmund Crosby
3. Rachel Crosby
4. Eliza H. Taft
5. Catharine H. Spear
6. Thomas Lilley
7. Ann L. Burrough

Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-05,1846-02-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 5, 1846 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 6, 1846 and concurred

Total signatures: 24

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6

Female signatures: 14

Unidentified signatures: 4

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Dedham, Wrentham, Boston; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815

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.