House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of John B. Wight

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481458 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Wayland Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Baldwin, Wayland; committee on that subject Selected signatures:John B. WightJames S. DraperNabby A. DraperDebby Allen Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-17,1849-03-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 17, 1849 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 19, 1849 and concurred Total signatures: 27 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 12 Female signatures: 15 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated 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 1849, Docket 2318A 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.