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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481406

Date of creation: 1845-12-29

Petition location: Hanson

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Henry Wilson, Natick; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Ebenezer B.K. Gurney
2. John Willet Jr.
3. Joshua Perry

Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-15,1846-01-15,1846-01-16

Legislative action: Tabeled on January 15, 1846 and received in the House on January 15, 1846 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1846 and concurred

Total signatures: 48

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 48

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

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: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815

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.