House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Cyrus Stow

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481449 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Concord Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Special committee on that subject Selected signatures:Cyrus StowFrancis PotterSeth KeithJohn ThoreauRufus HosmerReuben RiceWilliam WhitingJohn Brown Jr.Francis E. BigelowSamuel BlanchardHenry BarrettMary PotterSarah BealNancy HaywardNancy WarrenBarzillai FrostAdolphus Bates Actions taken on dates: 1849-04-07,1849-04-07 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 7, 1849 and referred to the special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the House on April 7, 1849 and concurred Total signatures: 103 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 51 Female signatures: 17 Other male signatures: 8 Unidentified signatures: 27 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], [other males], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [appears that some legal voters are in the "women and others" column] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A 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.