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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481330

Date of creation: 1844-01-23

Petition location: Boston

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Spear
2. Goodhue Ambrose
3. Oliver Johnson
4. Richard Hood
5. Joseph Southwick
6. James B. Yerrington
7. Cornelius Bramhall
8. J.C. Ray [John Ray?]
9. Mary M. Brooks
10. Ann E. Bacon
11. Gertrude Barrett
12. Jonathan Butterfield
13. John T. Hilton
14. Rebecca Pool
15. Richard Hildreth
16. George W. Benson
17. Robert F. Wallcut
18. Charles K. Whipple
19. Ignatius Sargent
20. David Lee Child
21. Elbridge Spargue
22. Jonathan Buffum
23. Hannah S. Adams
24. Thankful Southwick
25. Charles Lenox Remond
26. George W. Milton
27. Bela Marsh
28. Henry Willard Williams
29. B.B. Mussey [Benjamin B. Mussey]
30. Mary Ann Pepper
31. John G. King
32. Sarah Southwick
33. Frederick S. Cabot
34. James N. Buffum
35. Caroline Remond
36. Elizabeth C. Leach
37. Anne M. Whiting
38. Eunice D. Church
39. George Phelps
40. Charles B. Amos

Total signatures: 171

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 105

Female signatures: 39

Unidentified signatures: 27

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], [females], [females of color], ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents

Additional archivist notes: appointment of clergymen and ministers as executioners [clergy, religious, hangmen]; towns next to names including Boston, Danvers, Chelsea, Lynn, Salem, Northampton, Wrentham, Worcester, Walpole, Whately, Stoneham, Charlestown, Middleton, Abington, South Scituate, West Roxbury, New Bedford, Gloucester, Stoughton, Weymouth, Lowell, Concord, Bedford, Hingham, Annisgram, Quincy, Milton, Cambridgeport, Holliston, Milford, Attleboro, Rockport, Plymouth, Foxborough, Watertown, Dorchester, Brookfield, Roxbury, Cambridge; note at top: "Bourgeoise"

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1844, Docket 1410

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.