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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481496

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Wrentham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: R.H. Williams, Norton; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Otis G. Cheever
2. James Arnold
3. Edward C. Rogers
4. Susan Cheever
5. Hannah Arnold
6. Patience Tillinghart
7. Charles Ray

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1849 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence

Total signatures: 123

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50

Female signatures: 64

Other male signatures: 7

Unidentified signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], [other males], ["others"], ["non voters"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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 1849, Docket 2318A

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.