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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481623

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Somerset

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin G. Chace, Somerset; committee on the subject thereof

Selected signatures:

1. Mary Mosher
2. Susan Gifford
3. Sarah Slade
4. Eunice Brayton

Actions taken on dates: 1840-03-03,1840-03-03

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 3, 1840 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 3, 1840 and concurred

Total signatures: 82

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

Female signatures: 82

Female only signatures: Yes

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: [religious]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858

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.