DOI: 10.7910/dvn/l9drb
title: House Unpassed Legislation 1847, Docket 1890, SC1/series 230, Petition of Sarah 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:13448126"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448126&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: Joel Giles, Boston; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah H. Couring&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Wendell Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Evelina A.S. Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anne Warren Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria Weston Chapman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucia Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Emma Forbes Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Frances M. Robbins&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Greene&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Whyte&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Olive Potter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Clifford&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philander D. Ostrander&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Robie&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Deborah Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Helen Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary May&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary G. White&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah D. Robinson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriette M. Jackson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza J. Kenny&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Willey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary P. Trask&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza F. Meriam&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Rebecca Lee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary C. Blanchard&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna W. Cotton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Margaret H. Hunt&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Warren Burton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abby Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Anna R. Southwick&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann G. Phillips&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Colman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Caroline Weston&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Children&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Catharine E. Digney&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Maria A. Sylvester&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-04 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1847 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 75 &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): 11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female signatures: 50 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], ["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: additional documents available &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 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;