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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481432

Date of creation: 1848-02-21

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. E.A. Smith
2. J.A. Adams
3. Fidelia Adams
4. S.A. Coburn
5. Henry Trusk
6. Mary Ann Drowne
7. Abby Ann Noyes
8. Asa Daby
9. Reuben H. Ober
10. Sophia Ober
11. Charles Spear
12. Henry B. Pearson

Actions taken on dates: 1848-03-02

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1848 and referred to the committee on the subject

Total signatures: 63

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32

Female signatures: 22

Unidentified signatures: 9

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, inhabitants, men, women, [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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Charlestown, Malden, Cambridge, Harvard, Lowell; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]; [many texts, 3 printed and 2 handwritten, folded and presented together]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157

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.