House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Owen Bearse

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481528 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Barnstable Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Bradford Pratt, Dighton; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Owen BearseSeth HalletHannah S. CrowellRosella Baxter Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-13,1850-02-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and tabeled on February 13, 1850 Total signatures: 207 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, tabeled Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 196 Female signatures: 8 Other male signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [other males], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 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.