Senate Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 11841, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Fabens

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448945">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448945</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Marblehead </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Jefferson Knight, Marblehead; joint committee on the subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Fabens</li><li>Thomas Stevens</li><li>James Clothey</li><li>Nathaniel Adams</li><li>Thomas Millet</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1846-03-11,1846-03-12 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 11, 1846 and referred to the joint committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 12, 1846 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 227 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 227 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["others"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1846, Docket 11841 </p> <p>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.</p>