House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of N.S. Burnham

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481579 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Essex Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Gilman P. Allen, Essex; committee on the death penalty Selected signatures:N.S. BurnhamAsa PerkinsJoseph ScottMary ClarkMary Ann PerkinsMoses Andrews Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-19,1851-02-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 19, 1851 and referred to the committee on the death penalty and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 20, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 231 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 140 Female signatures: 62 Other male signatures: 28 Unidentified signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, other persons, [females], [other males], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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.