House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of Eliab Wight Jr.

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481601 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Bellingham Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jonathan P. Bishop, Medfield; special committee upon that subject Selected signatures:Eliab Wight Jr.Edward CraigPardon Crosby Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-15,1851-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1851 and referred to the special committee upon that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 131 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 94 Female signatures: 29 Unidentified signatures: 8 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not 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.