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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481469

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Freetown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Rev. John M. Spear, Boston, No.2 1/2 Central Court [Reverend]; Joseph Staples, Freetown; committee on the subject

Selected signatures:

1. Earl Sampson
2. Sylvanus S. Payne
3. Nicholas Hatheway

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-09,1849-03-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1849 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 12, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 21

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 21

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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.