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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481340

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Foxborough

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis Dane, Foxborough; committee on that subject; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. Charles W. Mellen
2. Ira Belcher
3. Willard P. Turner
4. Edmund Carroll
5. Mary B. Mellen
6. Mary W. Pond

Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1844 and referred to the committee on capital punishment

Total signatures: 103

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 95

Female signatures: 4

Unidentified signatures: 4

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not 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 1844, Docket 1410

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.