House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Isaac Lovejoy

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481401 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Lowell Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Leonard Huntress, Lowell; committee having that subject under consideration Selected signatures:Isaac LovejoySarah C. HubbardRalph P. HamiltonWilliam SweetserAlfred GoodwinNancy P RileyElizabeth Sawtell Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-17,1846-02-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 17, 1846 and referred to the committee having that subject under consideration and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 17, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 210 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 119 Female signatures: 53 Unidentified signatures: 38 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females] 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 Additional archivist notes: newspaper Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815 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.