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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481669

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. Augustus L. Curtin
2. Thomas Frothingham
3. Benjamin Ashton
4. Sarah Clark

Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-28,1843-03-01

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 28, 1843 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 1, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 104

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 90

Female signatures: 2

Unidentified signatures: 12

Female only signatures: No

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

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: [Includes notes, ages next to 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.