House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathaniel Cook Jr.

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481414 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mansfield Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alfred Bragg, Milford; joint special committee on that subject Selected signatures:Nathaniel Cook Jr.Martin BraleyGeorge GroverAmy SmithFanny W. RichardsonEliza Smith Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-16,1846-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1846 and referred to the joint special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 94 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 55 Female signatures: 39 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, voters, ladies, youth, [females], [\"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: Column and signatures for \"youth\" crossed out 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.