House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2157, SC1/series 230, Petition of Joshua Wilder

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481426">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481426</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Hingham </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Joshua Wilder</li><li>Joseph Jacobs</li><li>Matilda Fuller</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1848-02-12 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1848 and referred to a committee </p> <p>Total signatures: 17 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 13 </p> <p>Female signatures: 3 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["others"] </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; includes petition wrapper for several petitions] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157 </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>