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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481553

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Heman Arey, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Leavitt Thaxter
2. Joseph Pease
3. Seth Cleveland
4. Henry Cleveland
5. Ivory Lucas
6. Frederick Fellows

Actions taken on dates: 1850-01-29

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 35

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants

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 1850, Docket 2525

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.