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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481521

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Pembroke

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Seth Whitman Jr., Pembroke

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Brown
2. Lewis Lauthlin
3. Charles Whitman
4. Moses Brown
5. Catherine Hill
6. Ruth Standish

Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-21

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1850 and tabeled

Total signatures: 84

Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51

Female signatures: 25

Other male signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [other males], ["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 1850, Docket 2525

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.