Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of John A. Green

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481644">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481644</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Quincy </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Gregory, Quincy </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John A. Green</li><li>George Necomb</li><li>Thomas Arey</li><li>Elisha Packard</li><li>George Marsh</li><li>John Edwards</li><li>Josiah Adams Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 65 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 65 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"] </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Esq. next to signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1843, Docket 11312 </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>