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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481506

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gloucester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Simon P. Burnham, Gloucester; special committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Haskell
2. Jonathan H. Riggs
3. Henry M. Harlow
4. Edward Butler
5. Susan B. Phelps
6. Susan Burnham

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-20,1849-02-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1849 and referred to the special committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 21, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 47

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 22

Female signatures: 17

Other male signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: [Petition wrapper with the petition of Nathan Hallet]

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.