House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of Jonathan Drake

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481387">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481387</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1845-01-20 </p> <p>Petition location: Leominster </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Jonathan Drake</li><li>Frances H. Drake</li><li>Luther Stone</li><li>Asa J. Newhall</li><li>Emily R. Snow</li><li>Luther Osborn</li><li>Abel Chase</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-22 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary </p> <p>Total signatures: 160 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 77 </p> <p>Female signatures: 66 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 17 </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>: Manuscript </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: [Petition wrapper with the petition of Charles Spear] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1845, Docket 1588 </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>