Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of Zebediah Skinner

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481617">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481617</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Mansfield </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Schuyler Shepard, Mansfield; committee on capital punishment </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Zebediah Skinner</li><li>William Grover</li><li>Jacob Morse</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-02-12,1840-02-13 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1840 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 13, 1840 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 26 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 26 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal voters, inhabitants </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858 </p> <p>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.</p>