Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Stevens

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481662 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Salem Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on capital punishment Selected signatures:William StevensJoseph PotterCalvin MayThomas BarkerWilliam B. BrownGeorge SargentJoseph NuttingGideon WilkinsNathan Millet Actions taken on dates: 1843-02-16,1843-02-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1843 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 17, 1843 and concurred Total signatures: 141 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 141 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: [This petition includes a petition wrapper with a separate docket that was possibly filed with a different petition. The legislative metadata is from this petition wrapper.] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312 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.