House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Chester Brown

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481455 Date of creation: 1849-01-28 Petition location: Whately Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Chester Bardwell II, Whately; committee thereon Selected signatures:Chester BrownAustin AllisDorothy BrownAlvan Sanderson Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-19,1849-03-20 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 19, 1849 and referred to the committee thereon and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 20, 1849 and concurred Total signatures: 60 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 40 Female signatures: 6 Other male signatures: 9 Unidentified signatures: 5 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [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 Additional archivist notes: [payment] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A 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.