Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of Samuel Brown

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481631 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Pembroke Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel Smith, Pembroke; committee on the subject thereof Selected signatures:Samuel BrownLuther MagounCharles WhitmanMartin BryantAnn Brown Actions taken on dates: 1840-01-21,1840-01-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 21, 1840 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 22, 1840 and concurred Total signatures: 49 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 38 Female signatures: 11 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [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: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858 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.