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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481637

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Leicester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Sargent, Leicester

Selected signatures:

1. Austin Flint
2. Samuel May
3. Daniel Upham
4. Dwight Bisco

Total signatures: 76

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 76

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants and (with one or two exceptions) legal voters, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

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.