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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481664

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Haverhill

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Savary, Essex; committee that have that subject under consideration

Selected signatures:

1. John P. Montgomery
2. Franklin Currier
3. Benjamin Emerson
4. David Harmon
5. Julia Emerson
6. Caroline Emerson
7. Samuel Whittier

Actions taken on dates: 1843-03-03,1843-03-04

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 3, 1843 and referred to the committee that have that subject under consideration and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 4, 1843 and concurred

Total signatures: 177

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 130

Female signatures: 8

Unidentified signatures: 39

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: [Reverends; religious; includes notes; appears to have a signature in the middle of the text, unusual placement of signature]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312

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.