DOI: 10.7910/dvn/1rici
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1848, Docket 2157, SC1/series 230, Petition of E.W. Clap

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:13481430"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481430&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: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;E.W. Clap&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Asa Petts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellis Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah A. Crawford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha R. Lawrence&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Grover&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Alger&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliphalet Stone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Addison Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna Frizell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah E. Southard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet A. Sunderland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Blake Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hiram A. Morse&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William O. Cogswell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel T. Humphrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Noyes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Lane&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Laura Lane&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Lane&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Lane&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Varney Lock&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Turner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah N. Rogers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1848-02-12 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 12, 1848 and referred to a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 147 &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): 70 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 45 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 32 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [males of color], [females of color], [minors], ["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 Walpole, Wrentham, Medfield, Newton, Dedham, Boston, Roxbury, Lynn, Holliston, Framingham, Dracut, Malden, Grafton, Springfield, Charlestown, Cambridgeport, Foxborough, Milldam, Dorchester; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]; [Petition wrapper with the petition of Joshua Wilder] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1848, Docket 2157 &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;