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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481439

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. Caleb Thaxter
3. Ivory Lucas
4. Seth Cleveland
5. Amos Mellen

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1849 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 36

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and children

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: [paid next to name, but crossed out, payment]

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.