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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481619

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Westport

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Gifford, Westport; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. John Macomber
2. Lydia Macomber
3. Jacob Allen
4. Barbara Gifford

Actions taken on dates: 1840-02-08,1840-02-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1840 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1840 and concurred

Total signatures: 77

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 52

Female signatures: 22

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

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

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

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.