House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Benjamin F. Batchelder

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481548 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Holliston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Nichols, Holliston Selected signatures:Benjamin F. BatchelderDennis HartshornLowell CheneryWilliam Wight Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 10, 1850 and tabeled Total signatures: 36 Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 33 Female signatures: 1 Unidentified signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], ["citizens"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [wax sealed, had not been opened] 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.