House Unpassed Legislation 1849, Docket 2318A, SC1/series 230, Petition of Theodore G. Elliot

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481473">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481473</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Georgetown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Christopher C. Tilden, Hanson; special committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Theodore G. Elliot</li><li>Charles Adams</li><li>James Cartwright</li><li>Tristram Brown</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1849-03-09,1849-03-12 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1849 and referred to the special committee on that subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 12, 1849 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 43 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 36 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 7 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, women, [other males], ["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: 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: House Unpassed 1849, Docket 2318A </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>