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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481466

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Webster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J.M. Spear [John Spear], 2 1/2 Central Court, Boston; John Dixon, Webster; committee on that subject

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Hill
2. George Hewes
3. George H. Aldrich
4. Dolly Godard

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-13,1849-03-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 13, 1849 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 14, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 75

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

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

Female signatures: 25

Other male signatures: 13

Unidentified signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

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

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.