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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481615

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Nantucket

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George B. Upton, Nantucket; several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Griffin Barney
2. Timothy Hussey
3. James Easton Jr.
4. James Mitchell
5. N. Ruggles

Actions taken on dates: 1840-01-17,1840-01-20

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 17, 1840 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 20, 1840 and concurred

Total signatures: 114

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 114

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858

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.