House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Phineas Field

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481514">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481514</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Leverett </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Alden C. Field, Leverett </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Phineas Field</li><li>David Rice</li><li>Benjamin Beaman</li><li>Thankful Field</li><li>Marhta Ward</li><li>Fanny Lee Smith</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 22, 1850 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 36 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 20 </p> <p>Female signatures: 16 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: column separated </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: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 </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>