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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481414

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Mansfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alfred Bragg, Milford; joint special committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Nathaniel Cook Jr.
2. Martin Braley
3. George Grover
4. Amy Smith
5. Fanny W. Richardson
6. Eliza Smith

Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-16,1846-02-16

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1846 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1846 and concurred

Total signatures: 94

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55

Female signatures: 39

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, voters, ladies, youth, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Column and signatures for "youth" crossed out

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.