House Unpassed Legislation 1844, Docket 1410, SC1/series 230, Petition of John L. Lord

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481320">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481320</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Newburyport </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Benjamin F. Newhall, Saugus; special committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John L. Lord</li><li>Isaac Swan</li><li>Dexter Dana</li><li>John T. Whittier</li><li>Charles Whipple</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 133 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 133 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["citizens"] </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>Additional archivist notes: wafers </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>