DOI: 10.7910/dvn/mbjze
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 2525, SC1/series 230, Petition of John A. Andrew

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Abolition of capital punishment &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481533"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481533&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: James A. Abbott, Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John A. Andrew&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hosea Ballou&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Bell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Skinner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel F. Child&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Tolman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Bacon&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Mellen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Theodore Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Norton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;David Howland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J. Molineaux&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;G.W.F. Mellen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Horace Bowditch&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ebenezer Bird&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelius Lovell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elisha Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Coleman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John M. Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Colman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Hastings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann G. Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Foster&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anne Warren Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucia Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucretia Cowing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Phebe Garnaut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Crafts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Stephens&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Byron&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sophia Dalton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Priscilla Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Bradford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Higgins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Levi Hayward&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joshua Abbott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eli Webster Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eben Jackson Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Campbell Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Bryant&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Newell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Paine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bela Marsh&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;J.B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvanus Cobb&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Whitman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Clapp&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John W. Browne&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen Morrill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Adeline Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline Howe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-23 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Tabeled on February 23, 1850 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 519 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Tabeled &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 275 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 155 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Other male signatures: 24 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 65 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, legal voters, women and others, [females], [other males], ["others"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: no additional documents &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1850, Docket 2525 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;