House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Thomas D. Blake

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481549 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Duxbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen N. Gifford; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Thomas D. BlakeJoseph BrewsterMartha DelanoSarah Simmons Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 2, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 122 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 63 Female signatures: 59 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females] 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.