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House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Thomas Schofield

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Thomas Schofield
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ADZNY
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481474

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Saugus

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel C. Baker, Essex; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

  1. Thomas Schofield
  2. Nathaniel Mansfield
  3. Benjamin Newhall

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-10,1849-03-12

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 10, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 12, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 17

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

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
concurred
received
received
referred
sent
Manuscript
Daniel C. Baker, Essex; committee on the subject
Benjamin Newhall
Nathaniel Mansfield
Thomas Schofield
citizens
others
No
17
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