House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of T.B. Whiting

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481598 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Uxbridge Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on that subject Selected signatures:T.B. WhitingCharles WingWillis Brown Actions taken on dates: 1851-02-08,1851-02-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1851 and referred to the committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 10, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 123 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 123 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["legal voters"], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Uxbridge, Mendon, Blackstone Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162 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.