House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of William O. Haskell

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448122">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448122</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Chelsea </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hosea Ilsley, Chelsea; committee on capital punishment </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William O. Haskell</li><li>Philip R. Meriam Jr.</li><li>John H. Pierce</li><li>Alben S. Willard</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 113 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 113 </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>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>