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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481364

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Stoneham

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Reuben Locke Jr.
2. Abigail Newhall
3. Mary Lynde
4. William Wright
5. Edward T. Whittier
6. Abigail Green
7. Timothy B. Hadley
8. John C. Stone
9. Sumner Richardson
10. Stephen Lynde
11. Ann Eliza Bacon
12. Elsey Maria Wyman
13. Ellen Clark
14. Hannah Clark

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 24, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 131

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

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

Female signatures: 38

Unidentified signatures: 17

Female only signatures: No

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

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Stoneham, Malden, Bedford, Boston; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1845, Docket 1588

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.