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. AndrewHosea BallouWilliam BellOtis SkinnerWilliam Lloyd GarrisonDaniel F. ChildJames TolmanWendell PhillipsThomas BaconMoses MellenFrancis JacksonTheodore ParkerGeorge NortonDavid HowlandJ. MolineauxG.W.F. MellenHorace BowditchGeorge JacksonEbenezer BirdCornelius LovellElisha HaydenHenry ColemanJohn M. SpearJoseph ColmanSamuel HastingsAnn G. PhillipsMary G. ChapmanEdward FosterAnne Warren WestonLucia WestonSarah SouthwickLucretia CowingPhebe GarnautCatharine SargentHenrietta SargentSusan CraftsAbby StephensElizabeth ByronSophia DaltonPriscilla HaydenCharles BradfordJohn HigginsGeorge ShawLevi HaywardJoshua AbbottEli Webster RobbinsEben Jackson Jr.John Campbell Jr.Samuel BryantJohn NewellCharles PaineBela MarshRobert F. WallcutJ.B. YerrintonSylvanus CobbWilliam WhitmanOtis ClappJohn W. BrowneEliza BrownHelen MorrillAdeline PutnamWilliam SpearCaroline 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.