Senate Unpassed Legislation 1836, Docket 9844, SC1/series 231, Petition of Gideon Foster

<p>Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481605">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481605</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Danvers </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gideon Foster</li><li>Edward Southwick</li><li>David Osborn</li><li>Joshua Buxton</li><li>John Dodge</li><li>Rufus Wyman</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 89 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 89 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, ["inhabitants"] </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>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1836, Docket 9844 </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>