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Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481384

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

1. Charles Spear
2. Cornelius Bramhall
3. H.A. Morse
4. Henry Barker
5. Joseph Southwick
6. Francis Jackson
7. William C. Nell
8. Addison Davis
9. Jonathan Buffum
10. Lewis H. Barnard
11. James N. Buffum
12. Reuben H. Ober
13. George C. Leach
14. William Shaw
15. Richard Clap
16. Benjamin Snow Jr.
17. Robert R. Crosby
18. Henry P. Trash
19. Joshua Everett
20. John Curtis Jr.
21. Henry J. Prentiss
22. Josiah Wolcott
23. Benjamin Nye
24. George Adams
25. William Lloyd Garrison
26. George W. Pierce
27. Peter Blacker
28. James Campbell
29. William P. Atkinson
30. Rebecca T. Pool
31. Sarah Studley
32. Thomas Hill
33. Sarah Allen
34. Sarah Ford
35. Charles K. Whipple
36. Anne M. Whiting
37. Mary M. Brooks
38. Charles Bowers
39. John Bailey
40. Addison Davis
41. Eliza J. Kenny
42. Mary P. Kenny
43. Charles H. Bolton
44. Martha Barker
45. Goodhue Ambrose
46. Kies Doane
47. Elizabeth H. Richards
48. William H. Hill

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-22

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 129

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 93

Female signatures: 18

Unidentified signatures: 18

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Weymouth, Boston, Gardner, Holliston, Quincy, Lynn, Berlin, Lowell, Dorchester, Fitchburg, West Roxbury, Princeton, Watertown, Springfield, East Abington, Roxbury, Hanover, Northampton, Georgetown, Abington, Concord, New Bedford, Salem; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen; signatories include clergy, reverends; includes petition wrapper for several petitions; signature crossed out: George Doughty of New York]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1845, Docket 1588

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.