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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448944

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Amesbury, Salisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas J. Clark, Essex; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. John Greenleaf Whittier
2. Christopher Davis
3. Samuel Rowell
4. Isaac Barnard

Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-26

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 26, 1844 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 17

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1844, Docket 11561

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.