Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of Joseph Congdon

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481632">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481632</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: New Bedford </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas A. Greene, New Bedford; committee on the subject thereof </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joseph Congdon</li><li>John Bailey</li><li>Rodney French</li><li>Daniel Ricketson</li><li>John M. Spear</li><li>David W. Ruggles</li><li>Henry Johnson</li><li>Julius Lyons</li><li>George W. Baker</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-02-04,1840-02-05 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1840 and referred to the committee on the subject thereof and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 5, 1840 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 279 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 279 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"] </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: includes Capt., Captain next to signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1841, Docket 10858 </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>