House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of Leavitt Thaxter

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481590">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481590</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1851-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Sirson P. Coffin, Edgartown; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Leavitt Thaxter</li><li>Richard Beetle</li><li>Seth Cleveland</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-07,1851-03-08 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 7, 1851 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 8, 1851 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 53 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162 </p> <p>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.</p>