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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481437

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boylston

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Josiah Ball, Boylston, Mass.; Hiram Nash, Williamsburg; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. John T. Cotton
2. Jonah Ball
3. Charles Andrews
4. Betsey Andrews
5. Mary Ball
6. Mary A. Flagg

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 59

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

Female signatures: 26

Other male signatures: 3

Unidentified signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: [notes next to signatures; includes printed circular from John Spear, Boston, January 22, 1849; requests 5 cents from each signer, payment; Augustus Dutee, Washington Goode]

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.