House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles W. Mellen

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481340 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Foxborough Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis Dane, Foxborough; committee on that subject; committee on capital punishment Selected signatures:Charles W. MellenIra BelcherWillard P. TurnerEdmund CarrollMary B. MellenMary W. Pond Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-13 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1844 and referred to the committee on capital punishment Total signatures: 103 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 95 Female signatures: 4 Unidentified signatures: 4 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not 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 1844, Docket 1410 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.