DOI: 10.7910/dvn/gmdku
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of Ann G. Phillips

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:13481358"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481358&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Massachusetts &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann G. Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Weston Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary C. Blanchard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna W. Cotton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah D. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Baker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary H. Lincoln&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Hosmer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Cheever&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine Stetson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susanna Norwood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Rice&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Chase&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances Mary Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Low&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Philbrick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucia Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Cowing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anne Warren Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucretia Anne Cowing&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma Forbes Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Frances Meriam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Martineau Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth M. Tolman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa M. Sewall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Robie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Wells&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Young&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Susan Baker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thankful Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philis Salem&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret Beecher&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 55 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 51 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], ["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;: Printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not 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 1845, Docket 1588 &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;