DOI: 10.7910/dvn/u709p
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1845, Docket 1588, SC1/series 230, Petition of Robert Rantoul Jr.

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:13481386"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481386&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;Robert Rantoul Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Bamford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Philbrick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Pierpont&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel J. May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amasa Walker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Peabody&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Trask&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Lenox Remond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Kenny&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Chase&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel B. Leonard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Carpenter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Spencer Hodges&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Whitney&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas T. Greenwood&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Porter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Judith Howe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Curtis Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Daniel Haskell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Adams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Shaw&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Fuller&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin Bullard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas O. Marshall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clementine Pond&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Cornelius Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis Gebson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Barnes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Silvanus Putnam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvester Proctor&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Moses Stearns&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter Dodge&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Levi Littlefield&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Jenkins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Eddy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Spear&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alphonso Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sophia Rutter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Howe&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellen Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Dudley Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Otis A. Skinner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nahum Capen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amory Jewett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-22 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 262 &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): 193 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 40 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 29 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males 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;Additional archivist notes: Towns next to names including Boston, Salem, Newburyport, Foxborough, Templeton, Sterling, Springfield, Wrentham, Oxford, Sutton, Danvers, [Petersham?], Charlestown, Roxbury, Cambridge, Cambridgeport, Nantucket [Petition wrapper with the petition of Charles Spear; signature of Charles Spear crossed out at top] &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;