House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of Reuben Bacon

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481345">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481345</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1844-02-13 </p> <p>Petition location: Bedford </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John W. Simonds, Bedford; special committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Reuben Bacon</li><li>Elias P. Hosmer</li><li>Hiram Reed</li><li>Martha Bacon</li><li>Nancy Merriam</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 25 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10 </p> <p>Female signatures: 13 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Lexington; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1844, Docket 1410 </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>