House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Lorenzo Smith

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481520">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481520</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Easton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alanson White, Easton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Lorenzo Smith</li><li>Solomon Thayer</li><li>James Wells</li><li>Nathaniel Randall</li><li>Mary Watts</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-21 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1850 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 78 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36 </p> <p>Female signatures: 24 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 14 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 4 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [other males], ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [Reverends; wax sealed, had not been opened] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 </p> <p>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.</p>