House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Benjamin Lewis

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481412 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Barnstable Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas B. Lewis, Barnstable; committee on that subject Selected signatures:Benjamin LewisCrocker HinckleyJames WorrellHilman CrosbyNelson Bearse Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-16,1846-01-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1846 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 53 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 53 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: 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: 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.