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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481687

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lynn

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Essex; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Alonzo Lewis
2. Stephen Oliver
3. Thomas Coombs
4. Nathan M. Phillips
5. George W. Frothingham

Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-17,1843-02-18

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 17, 1843 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 18, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 68

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 68

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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 1843, Docket 11312

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.