ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233001

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Selected signatures:

1. Francis Rice
2. John Cushing
3. Joshua T. Everett
4. William Lloyd Garrison
5. Walter Channing
6. Bela Marsh

Total signatures: 104

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 66

Female signatures: 5

Unidentified signatures: 33

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, undersigned

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Thomas Barrett; four texts, including one without signatures [these documents were folded together and appear to have been presented or considered as one petition; towns next to names including Barre, but also appears to have been circulated among Boston and other towns]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, January 2, 1845, Case of Thomas Barrett

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.