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House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Oliver Swain

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Oliver Swain
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/AQLCY
 
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:13481476

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Reading

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: R.H. Williams, Norton; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

  1. Oliver Swain
  2. Jacob Goning
  3. John Campbell
  4. Mary Rugg

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-02,1849-03-03

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 3, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 93

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 49

Female signatures: 40

Other male signatures: 4

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], [other males], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: 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: 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
Printed
R.H. Williams, Norton; committee on the subject
Jacob Goning
John Campbell
Mary Rugg
Oliver Swain
females
inhabitants
legal voters
other males
others
women and others
column separated
No
40
49
4
93