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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481519

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Adams

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Marsh, Adams

Selected signatures:

1. David Richmond
2. H.J. Bliss
3. Ira N. Mason
4. Cynthia Place
5. Julia Edmunds

Actions taken on dates: 1850-03-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1850 and tabeled

Total signatures: 266

Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 166

Female signatures: 76

Other male signatures: 9

Unidentified signatures: 15

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females 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: [payment]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525

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.