House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Isaac Austin

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481389 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Joint special committee on the subject Selected signatures:Isaac AustinSarah C. RayLucretia FolgerHarriet MacyReuben RayEliza BarneyVarnum B. GardnerNoah PoolN. RugglesWilliam ChaceGeorge GardnerEdward J. PompeyEunice F. RossSusan Pool Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-31,1846-01-31 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 31, 1846 and referred to the joint special committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 31, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 145 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 99 Female signatures: 31 Unidentified signatures: 15 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], [\"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 Additional archivist notes: newspaper; [petition appears to be partially segergated by gender or circulated separately by gender] 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.