Senate Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 11312, SC1/series 231, Petition of Job Coleman

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481649">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481649</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1842-11 </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George B. Upton, Nantucket; committee on the judiciary; committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to this subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Job Coleman</li><li>Peter Russell</li><li>Edward Gardner</li><li>George Coffin</li><li>Alfred Folger</li><li>David Coleman</li><li>David Upham</li><li>David Mitchell</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-21,1843-02-10,1843-02-10,1843-02-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 21, 1843 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the Senate on February 10, 1843 and committee report discharged and referred to the committee on so much of the governor's address as relates to this subject and received in the Senate on February 10, 1843 and accepted and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 11, 1843 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 296 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, discharged, referred, received, accepted, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 296 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["legal voters"] </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: [lead signer not at top of petition] </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>