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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481382

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. R.N. Rice
2. L.E. Bowers
3. Sarah D. Richardson
4. Alonzo Burgess
5. Josiah M. Davis
6. Ann Bigelow
7. Mary M. Brooks
8. Edmund Hosmer
9. Francis E. Bigelow
10. Elizabeth Hoar
11. Sarah B. Brown
12. Carlos Tweksbury
13. George P. Bradford
14. Sophia Thoreau
15. Harriet Barber
16. Mary Eaton
17. Lucy Brown
18. Ralph Waldo Emerson
19. Ruth Emerson
20. Louisa Stevens
21. Hannah Kimball
22. L. Emerson [Lidian Emerson?]
23. Sally Rice
24. Helen L. Thoreau
25. John Thoreau
26. Sarah Heywood

Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 60

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female signatures: 36

Unidentified signatures: 7

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: [newspaper]

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.