House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of John A. Andrew

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481533 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James A. Abbott, Boston Selected signatures: John A. Andrew Hosea Ballou William Bell Otis Skinner William Lloyd Garrison Daniel F. Child James Tolman Wendell Phillips Thomas Bacon Moses Mellen Francis Jackson Theodore Parker George Norton David Howland J. Molineaux G.W.F. Mellen Horace Bowditch George Jackson Ebenezer Bird Cornelius Lovell Elisha Hayden Henry Coleman John M. Spear Joseph Colman Samuel Hastings Ann G. Phillips Mary G. Chapman Edward Foster Anne Warren Weston Lucia Weston Sarah Southwick Lucretia Cowing Phebe Garnaut Catharine Sargent Henrietta Sargent Susan Crafts Abby Stephens Elizabeth Byron Sophia Dalton Priscilla Hayden Charles Bradford John Higgins George Shaw Levi Hayward Joshua Abbott Eli Webster Robbins Eben Jackson Jr. John Campbell Jr. Samuel Bryant John Newell Charles Paine Bela Marsh Robert F. Wallcut J.B. Yerrinton Sylvanus Cobb William Whitman Otis Clapp John W. Browne Eliza Brown Helen Morrill Adeline Putnam William Spear Caroline Howe Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-23 Legislative action: Tabeled on February 23, 1850 Total signatures: 519 Legislative action summary: Tabeled Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 275 Female signatures: 155 Other male signatures: 24 Unidentified signatures: 65 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], [other males], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript : Manuscript Signatory column format: column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 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.