House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of Simon Pettee

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481376">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481376</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1845-01-07 </p> <p>Petition location: Foxborough </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Grenville Stevens, Rehoboth; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Simon Pettee</li><li>Silas Ripley</li><li>Alfred Fales</li><li>William Clark</li><li>Daniel Carpenter</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-25 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 25, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 55 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["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 1845, Docket 1588 </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>