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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481640

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Franklin

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Saul B. Scott, Franklin; Greenwood [Thomas J. Greenwood, Middlesex?]; committee on the subject thereof

Selected signatures:

1. Martin Green
2. Charles Jordan
3. Gilbert Hill
4. George Luke

Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-07,1843-02-08

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 7, 1843 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 8, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 92

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 92

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

Additional archivist notes: [example of copied signatures]

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.