House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Caleb Thayer

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481417 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Blackstone Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Rufus Hayward, Mendon; committee on that subject Selected signatures:Caleb ThayerGeorge W. HuntAbner Wight Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-11,1846-02-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1846 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 133 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 133 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["inhabitants"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: newspaper Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815 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.