House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of Phineas Field

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481584 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Leverett Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Silas Ball, Leverett; joint select committee on the death penalty Selected signatures:Phineas FieldBenjamin BemanDaniel AbbotCaroline BemanThankful Field Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-31,1851-02-01 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on the death penalty and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 45 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 29 Female signatures: 16 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [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 1851, Docket 3162 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.