House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Spear

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481397 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on capital punishment Selected signatures: Charles Spear James N. Buffum Charles B. Stearns James Mitchell Lewis Glazier John M. Spear Ignatius Sargent Sylvanus Cobb Jr. Joseph Southwick George Leach Henry P. Trusk Loring Moody William C. Nell Edmund Jackson Frederick S. Cabot Charles K. Whipple Bela Marsh George W. Pierce Richard Clap William Lloyd Garrison Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-10,1846-02-11 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 10, 1846 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 27 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript : Printed Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Lynn, Springfield, Gardner, Georgetown, Westborough, Chelsea, Milton; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815 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.