Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of Griffin Barney

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481615 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Nantucket Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George B. Upton, Nantucket; several names from a committee Selected signatures:Griffin BarneyTimothy HusseyJames Easton Jr.James MitchellN. Ruggles Actions taken on dates: 1840-01-17,1840-01-20 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 17, 1840 and referred to a committee and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 20, 1840 and concurred Total signatures: 114 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 114 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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.