Senate Unpassed Legislation 1858, judiciary committee – leave to withdraw, SC1/series 231, Petition of Charles Spear

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909155">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13909155</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Prince, Essex; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles Spear</li><li>M. Blanchard</li><li>Jacob Edson</li><li>Edwin Brown</li><li>Richard Thayer</li><li>Sarah Elwell</li><li>Caroline Malone</li><li>Adaline Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1858-02-19 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 19, 1858 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 32 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 11 </p> <p>Female signatures: 4 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 17 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["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>: Manuscript </p> <p>Signatory column format: not 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: Senate Unpassed 1858, judiciary committee – leave to withdraw </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>