Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Pecker

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481653">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481653</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Amesbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Philip Osgood, Amesbury </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Pecker</li><li>Israel Balch</li><li>John Cary</li><li>Benjamin Jewell</li><li>John Greenleaf Whittier</li><li>Jonathan Nayson</li><li>Philip Osgood</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 60 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 60 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: 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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Phy. [physician?] next to signature </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>