#FunFact: 103 people from Foxborough submitted a petition for the Abolition of Capital Punishment to the Massachusetts House Of Representatives on February 13, 1844. Explore and learn more about our borough past and present at https://history.02035.org!

Posted By: 02035org October 8, 2020

#FunFact: 103 people from Foxborough submitted a petition for the Abolition of Capital Punishment to the Massachusetts House Of Representatives on February 13, 1844.

  • Charles W. Mellen
  • Ira Belcher
  • Willard P. Turner
  • Edmund Carroll
  • Mary B. Mellen
  • Mary W. Pond
  • David A. Morse
  • Charles Fisher
  • Hiram R. Putnam
  • Charles Leonard
  • John Hewes
  • George Sherman
  • Richard Stratton
  • Alfred Fales
  • Timothy Elliott
  • Otis Cary
  • Francis Carpenter
  • Warren Billings
  • Phillip Payson
  • Lewis Pond
  • Silas Cook
  • William Plympton
  • Jeremiah M. Shepard
  • Nehemiah Carpenter

were some of the signers of the petition. Explore and learn more about our borough past and present at https://history.02035.org!

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