House Unpassed Legislation 1851, Docket 3162, SC1/series 230, Petition of O.H. Tillotson

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481582">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481582</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; joint select committee on the abolition of the death penalty </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>O.H. Tillotson</li><li>Henry Earle</li><li>Charles H. Boswell</li><li>Emory Stephens</li><li>Otis Ruggles</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1851-01-30,1851-02-01 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 30, 1851 and referred to the joint select committee on the abolition of the death penalty and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 1, 1851 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 317 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 317 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, 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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Worcester, Barre, Princeton, Milford, Athol, Hubbardston, Charlton, Medfield, New Worcester, Grafton, Holden, Sutton, Hartford [crossed out], Shrewsbury, Webster, West Boylston, Lynn, Boston, Clinton; [text altered, "wholly" crossed out] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1851, Docket 3162 </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>