House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Bowers

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481515 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Concord Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Hoar, Concord Selected signatures:Charles BowersJohn PondJames WeirJames GilesJoseph ParkesSamuel BlanchardWilliam WhitingBarzillai FrostFrancis E. BigelowMaurice CaryMary PotterHarriet StewartMary HolbrookMary BrooksVirginia ParkerSherman RichardsonJohn ThoreauEunice HaydenSophia ThoreauCynthia ThoreauSarah StaplesSarah ChapinSusan BarrettFranklin HansonRuth EmersonJohn Brown Jr. Actions taken on dates: 1850-04-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on April 5, 1850 and tabeled Total signatures: 267 Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 101 Female signatures: 100 Unidentified signatures: 66 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, non voters, [females], [other males], [\"others\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 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.