Senate Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 11561, SC1/series 231, Petition of John Greenleaf Whittier

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448944">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448944</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Amesbury, Salisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas J. Clark, Essex; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Greenleaf Whittier</li><li>Christopher Davis</li><li>Samuel Rowell</li><li>Isaac Barnard</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-26 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 26, 1844 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 17 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens </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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1844, Docket 11561 </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>