Senate Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 12973, SC1/series 231, Petition of Heman Crocker

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448949">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448949</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1850-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William C. Starbuck, Nantucket; committee on prisons </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Heman Crocker</li><li>Lydia Crocker</li><li>Christopher Hussey</li><li>Zenas Fish</li><li>Rachel Gardner</li><li>Edward Mitchell</li><li>Lydia Mitchell</li><li>Maria Mitchell</li><li>Freeman Atkins</li><li>Absalom F. Boston</li><li>Peter Folger</li><li>Sarah Grew</li><li>Nancy Rand</li><li>Martha Sherman</li><li>Charles Paddock</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-11,1850-02-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 11, 1850 and referred to the committee on prisons and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 11, 1850 and laid on the table </p> <p>Total signatures: 77 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 50 </p> <p>Female signatures: 20 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 7 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], ["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 1850, Docket 12973 </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>