House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Charles Bowers

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481515">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481515</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Concord </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Hoar, Concord </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Charles Bowers</li><li>John Pond</li><li>James Weir</li><li>James Giles</li><li>Joseph Parkes</li><li>Samuel Blanchard</li><li>William Whiting</li><li>Barzillai Frost</li><li>Francis E. Bigelow</li><li>Maurice Cary</li><li>Mary Potter</li><li>Harriet Stewart</li><li>Mary Holbrook</li><li>Mary Brooks</li><li>Virginia Parker</li><li>Sherman Richardson</li><li>John Thoreau</li><li>Eunice Hayden</li><li>Sophia Thoreau</li><li>Cynthia Thoreau</li><li>Sarah Staples</li><li>Sarah Chapin</li><li>Susan Barrett</li><li>Franklin Hanson</li><li>Ruth Emerson</li><li>John Brown Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-04-05 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on April 5, 1850 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 267 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 101 </p> <p>Female signatures: 100 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 66 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, non voters, [females], [other males], ["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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 </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>