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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481595

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Roderick S. Merrick, Wilbraham; committee on the death penalty

Selected signatures:

1. Z.A. Mudge
2. William Russell
3. H. Sandford Seale
4. Elizabeth Raymond
5. Sarah North
6. Betsey Smith
7. Silas Bliss

Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-10,1851-03-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 10, 1851 and referred to the committee on the death penalty and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 11, 1851 and concurred

Total signatures: 57

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 37

Female signatures: 20

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: [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: Towns next to names including Newton; [religious]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162

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.