DOI: 10.7910/dvn/pz0jj
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1890, SC1/series 230, Petition of Nathaniel Vose

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:13481422"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481422&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: Charles Spear, Editor Prisoner's Friend, Boston, Mass.; Edgar K. Whitaker, Needham; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Nathaniel Vose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Capen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Jones&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ezra Drake&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Vose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sullivan Burnham&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Reuben H. Ober&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Hardy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Bentley Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Pierce&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William P. Peakes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Goerge S. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Prudence W. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Borton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mason S. Chace&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Job Read&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Haynes Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Tolman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Calvin Whiting&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia C. Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Parker&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alden Sampson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Beetle&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Seth Cleveland&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Thaxter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Arthur Cooper Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Valentine Pease&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-22 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 22, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 292 &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): 226 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 37 &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, inhabitants, [females], [males of color] &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 Stoughton, Lowell, Boston, Wrentham, Neponset Village, Fall River, Charlestown, Edgartown, Swanzey; clergymen appointed as executioners [religious, clergy, ministers, hangmen]; [includes note from Caleb Thaxter at Edgartown to Charles Spear, "Brother Spear"; 2 texts] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1847, Docket 1890 &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;