House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of W.R.G. Mellen

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481570 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Chicopee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Bradford Pratt, Dighton Selected signatures:W.R.G. MellenJohn DenisonRalph Williams Jr.John Wood Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1850 and tabeled Total signatures: 57 Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 57 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed 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.