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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481451

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Lexington

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Rev. John M. Spear, Boston, Mass. [Reverend]; Philip Russell, Lexington; committee thereon

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Locke
2. Isaac Damon
3. Samuel Hendley
4. Lydia Mulliken

Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-24,1849-03-26

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 24, 1849 and referred to the committee thereon and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 26, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 146

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 89

Female signatures: 57

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: 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 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.