ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448950

Date of creation: 1850-04-01

Petition location: Brimfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. F.D. Lincoln
2. John Newton
3. William Nichols
4. Charles Brown

Actions taken on dates: 1850-04-06

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 6, 1850 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 42

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 42

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 13010

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.