Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of John M. Spear

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481665 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Weymouth, Braintree Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alva Morrison, Braintree; committee on capital punishment Selected signatures:John M. SpearTimothy BayleyC.C. JordanOtis Smith Actions taken on dates: 1843-03-01,1843-03-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 1, 1843 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 2, 1843 and concurred Total signatures: 30 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 30 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [religious] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312 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.