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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481434

Date of creation: 1848-02-07

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Warner Jr., Wrentham; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. Henry E. Pond
2. Alonzo L. Ware
3. Marcus Barren
4. Levi Blake

Actions taken on dates: 1848-02-28

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 28, 1848 and referred to the committee on capital punishment

Total signatures: 52

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

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

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: subscribers, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: [focus on arson, treason, rape]

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.