DOI: 10.7910/dvn/l8pgt
title: Senate Unpassed Legislation 1864, referred to next general court, SC1/series 231, Petition of William Lloyd Garrison

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:11665846"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11665846&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1864-02-16 &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: Clark [John M. Clark, Boston, Suffolk Sheriff?] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Sawyer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edwin Thompson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William C. Nell&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles K. Whipple&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert F. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Ford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel May Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Richard Thayer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bourne Spooner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James N. Clark&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Quincy&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anson J. Stone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles Buffum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James N. Buffum&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William B. Oliver&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas W. Ripley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Addison G. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ira Gray&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James M.W. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Wells Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Lloyd Garrison Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles W. Slack&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert R. Crosby&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Codman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John P. Jewett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis H. Douglass&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles H. Coffin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Alexander Wilson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert J. Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James B. Yerrinton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Hinckley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frederick S. Cabot&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Weston Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary R. Wallcut&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edmund Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Orne Stone&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1864-04-29,1864-05-02 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the Senate on April 29, 1864 and referred to the next general court and sent for concurrence and received in the House on May 2, 1864 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 84 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 65 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 2 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 17 &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;: Manuscript &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: Senate Unpassed 1864, referred to next general court &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;