House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of Thomas Treadwell Stone

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481527">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481527</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Salem </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Kimball, Salem </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Treadwell Stone</li><li>Samuel Johnson Jr.</li><li>James Flint</li><li>O.B. Frothingham</li><li>William Ives</li><li>Ebenezer Fisher</li><li>Warren Dow Jr.</li><li>Charles D. Howard</li><li>Frederic Lancaster</li><li>Charles Babcock</li><li>George Andrews</li><li>Robert Dailey</li><li>Henry Derby</li><li>Nathaniel Jackson</li><li>William Bowditch</li><li>John W. Pepper</li><li>Thomas S. Pepper</li><li>Francis Cox</li><li>William Kimball</li><li>Laura Stone</li><li>Lucinda Thatcher</li><li>Hannah Burbank</li><li>Eliza Austin</li><li>Dolly Norris</li><li>Celia Colman</li><li>Sarah Colman</li><li>Maria Colman</li><li>Betsey Blanchard</li><li>Mary Pepper</li><li>Sarah P. Remond</li><li>Susan H. Remond</li><li>Nancy Remond</li><li>Maritcha Remond</li><li>Elizabeth Putnam</li><li>Harriet Chapman</li><li>Eliza Cox</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-13 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1850 and tabeled </p> <p>Total signatures: 199 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, tabeled </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 146 </p> <p>Female signatures: 45 </p> <p>Other male signatures: 2 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 6 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, females and others, [females], [females of color] </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: 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>