House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of T.A. Buffum

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481585 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Levi Rawson, Grafton; joint select committee on that subject Selected signatures:T.A. BuffumDavid FarnumCharles HagetNancy WhiteLeora SmithAugustus LelandEdwin Slocomb Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-28,1851-01-30,1851-01-31 Legislative action: Received on January 28, 1851 and laid on the table and received in the House on January 30, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 66 Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 46 Female signatures: 20 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [\"citizens\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Grafton, Sutton Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162 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.