Senate Unpassed Legislation 1841, Docket 10858, SC1/series 231, Petition of Calvin Moulton

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481622">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481622</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1840-01-24 </p> <p>Petition location: Rehoboth </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Marvel Jr., Rehoboth </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Calvin Moulton</li><li>Cyrus M. Wheaton</li><li>George T. Wheeler</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 9 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 9 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: 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>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 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>