House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of Daniel Osborn

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481347">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481347</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Danvers </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Frederick Morrill, Danvers; committee on that subject </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Daniel Osborn</li><li>William Stimpson</li><li>Daniel Manning</li><li>Thomas Hunt</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1844-02-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 10, 1844 and referred to the committee on that subject </p> <p>Total signatures: 84 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 84 </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: House Unpassed 1844, Docket 1410 </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>