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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481546

Date of creation: 1850-01

Petition location: Monroe

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Bradford Pratt, Dighton; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Hines
2. H. Gilbert Ballou
3. Hosea Ballou
4. Russell Ballou
5. David Ballou
6. Julina Hines
7. Eliza Phelps
8. David Goodell

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-04

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 54

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20

Female signatures: 25

Other male signatures: 9

Female only signatures: No

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

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.