House Unpassed Legislation 1843, Docket 1231, SC1/series 230, Petition of James N. Buffum

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481317">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481317</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1843-03-10 </p> <p>Petition location: Lynn </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James N. Buffum</li><li>James P. Boyer</li><li>Isaac Pinkham</li><li>Israel Buffum</li><li>Benjamin Luscomb</li><li>Edwin Jeffers</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Dead </p> <p>Total signatures: 10 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Dead </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 10 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: memorialists, ["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: against certain statements, by them deemed a "wrong" and "grievance," from the report of the special committee of the House of Representatives to whom was referred their petition praying the abolition of capital punishment or the appointment of clergy as executioners, [lengthy text] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1843, Docket 1231 </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>