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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481335

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; committee on capital punishment

Selected signatures:

1. Maria Weston Chapman
2. Frederick S. Cabot
3. William C. Nell
4. Margaret Diamond
5. Caroline Remond
6. Anne M. Whiting
7. D.B. Morey
8. George W.F. Mellen
9. Henry I. Bowditch
10. Henry Willard Williams
11. Mary G. Chapman
12. Anne Warren Weston
13. George M. Rogers

Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1844 and referred to the committee on capital punishment

Total signatures: 55

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20

Female signatures: 14

Unidentified signatures: 21

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], [males of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not 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 1844, Docket 1410

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.