House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1231, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joseph Southwick

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448121">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448121</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1843-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George Hood, Essex; committee on capital punishment </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Southwick</li><li>Henry W. Williams</li><li>John Curtis Jr.</li><li>Charles K. Whipple</li><li>Frederic S. Cabot</li><li>Hervey E. Weston</li><li>Nathaniel Gale</li><li>William Haskell</li><li>John Sawyer</li><li>Oliver Johnson</li><li>Loring Reed</li><li>William White</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1843-03-06 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 6, 1843 and referred to the committee on capital punishment and sent for concurrence </p> <p>Total signatures: 22 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 22 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: that the clerical advocates of the practice may be appointed executioners, clergy, hangmen, judicial murder, ministers of God, [reverend, religious; more details on legislative actions on front, possibly referring to House actions] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1231 </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>