House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2157, SC1/series 230, Petition of E.A. Smith

Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481432 Date of creation: 1848-02-21 Petition location: Massachusetts Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the subject Selected signatures:E.A. SmithJ.A. AdamsFidelia AdamsS.A. CoburnHenry TruskMary Ann DrowneAbby Ann NoyesAsa DabyReuben H. OberSophia OberCharles SpearHenry B. Pearson Actions taken on dates: 1848-03-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1848 and referred to the committee on the subject Total signatures: 63 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 32 Female signatures: 22 Unidentified signatures: 9 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens, inhabitants, men, women, [females], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Charlestown, Malden, Cambridge, Harvard, Lowell; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]; [many texts, 3 printed and 2 handwritten, folded and presented together] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157 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.