Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Barnabas Edwards

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481646">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481646</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Barnabas Edwards</li><li>Thomas Whittemore</li><li>John B. Dods</li><li>George Bazin</li><li>William Griswold</li><li>John Low</li><li>Henry Brown</li><li>Benjamin Nourse</li><li>Benjamin Whittemore</li><li>Charles Spear</li><li>Lemuel Willis</li><li>Samuel Mudge</li><li>Joseph Hathaway</li><li>Massena Ballou</li><li>Hosea Ballou</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 35 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [lead signer not at top of petition] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312 </p> <p>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.</p>