House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of R.N. Rice

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481382">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481382</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Concord </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Isaac S. Lee, Concord; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>R.N. Rice</li><li>L.E. Bowers</li><li>Sarah D. Richardson</li><li>Alonzo Burgess</li><li>Josiah M. Davis</li><li>Ann Bigelow</li><li>Mary M. Brooks</li><li>Edmund Hosmer</li><li>Francis E. Bigelow</li><li>Elizabeth Hoar</li><li>Sarah B. Brown</li><li>Carlos Tweksbury</li><li>George P. Bradford</li><li>Sophia Thoreau</li><li>Harriet Barber</li><li>Mary Eaton</li><li>Lucy Brown</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Ruth Emerson</li><li>Louisa Stevens</li><li>Hannah Kimball</li><li>L. Emerson [Lidian Emerson?]</li><li>Sally Rice</li><li>Helen L. Thoreau</li><li>John Thoreau</li><li>Sarah Heywood</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-02-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 60 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17 </p> <p>Female signatures: 36 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 7 </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>: Printed </p> <p>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: [newspaper] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1845, Docket 1588 </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>