House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Henry B. Parsell

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481550">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481550</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Somerset </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Bradford Pratt, Dighton </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Henry B. Parsell</li><li>Enoch Chace</li><li>Samuel Purinton</li><li>Abby Purinton</li><li>Phebe Winslow</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1850 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 77 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 48 </p> <p>Female signatures: 22 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 6 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [other males] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [outside wrapper only counts legal voters] </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>