House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of John H. Crane

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481405 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the subject Selected signatures:John H. CraneHarrington SebleyHarriet HoldenEllen LyonMartha Richardson Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-09,1846-01-15,1846-01-16 Legislative action: Tabeled on January 9, 1846 and received in the House on January 15, 1846 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 35 Legislative action summary: Tabeled, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 Female signatures: 18 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, males, females, [females], ["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 Additional archivist notes: newspaper 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.