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House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of R.N. Rice

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Title House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of R.N. Rice
 
Identifier https://doi.org/10.7910/DVN/ECS2F
 
Creator Digital Archive of Massachusetts Anti-Slavery and Anti-Segregation Petitions, Massachusetts Archives, Boston MA
 
Publisher Harvard Dataverse
 
Description

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481382

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Concord

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary

Selected signatures:

  1. R.N. Rice
  2. L.E. Bowers
  3. Sarah D. Richardson
  4. Alonzo Burgess
  5. Josiah M. Davis
  6. Ann Bigelow
  7. Mary M. Brooks
  8. Edmund Hosmer
  9. Francis E. Bigelow
  10. Elizabeth Hoar
  11. Sarah B. Brown
  12. Carlos Tweksbury
  13. George P. Bradford
  14. Sophia Thoreau
  15. Harriet Barber
  16. Mary Eaton
  17. Lucy Brown
  18. Ralph Waldo Emerson
  19. Ruth Emerson
  20. Louisa Stevens
  21. Hannah Kimball
  22. L. Emerson [Lidian Emerson?]
  23. Sally Rice
  24. Helen L. Thoreau
  25. John Thoreau
  26. Sarah Heywood

Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-11

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary

Total signatures: 60

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female signatures: 36

Unidentified signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["inhabitants"]

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: [newspaper]

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.


 
Subject Social Sciences
received
referred
Printed
Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary
Alonzo Burgess
Ann Bigelow
Carlos Tweksbury
Edmund Hosmer
Elizabeth Hoar
Francis E. Bigelow
George P. Bradford
Hannah Kimball
Harriet Barber
Helen L. Thoreau
John Thoreau
Josiah M. Davis
L. Emerson [Lidian Emerson?]
L.E. Bowers
Louisa Stevens
Lucy Brown
Mary Eaton
Mary M. Brooks
R.N. Rice
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Ruth Emerson
Sally Rice
Sarah B. Brown
Sarah D. Richardson
Sarah Heywood
Sophia Thoreau
citizens
females
inhabitants
not column separated
No
36
17
60
7