Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of John Macomber

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481619">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481619</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Westport </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John A. Gifford, Westport; committee on capital punishment </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Macomber</li><li>Lydia Macomber</li><li>Jacob Allen</li><li>Barbara Gifford</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-02-08,1840-02-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 8, 1840 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1840 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 77 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 52 </p> <p>Female signatures: 22 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858 </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>