DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ioklf
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1846, Docket 1815, SC1/series 230, Petition of Henry Chapman

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:13481409"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481409&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: Henry Wilson, Natick; committee on the subject &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lydia Grafton Jarvis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances Lear Prescott&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Weston Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma Frobes Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucia Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George W. Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances M. Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emeline Martin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Potter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Bramhall&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline F. Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha A. Lockley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eunice R. Davis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Rogers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Martha Kent&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 Hunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah D. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Robie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Lee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry J. Prentiss&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa Loring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Colman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Edward Colman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henrietta Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine Sargent&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth M. Tolman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-20,1846-01-21 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 20, 1846 and referred to the committee on the subject and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 21, 1846 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 50 &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): 7 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 39 &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;Additional archivist notes: newspaper &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1815 &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;