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Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233055

Date of creation: 1849-01-26

Petition location: Chambersburg, Pennsylvania

Selected signatures:

1. George W. Brewer
2. Joseph Dunwoody
3. Martin Newcomer

Total signatures: 17

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 17

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Washington Goode; includes note on signatories' "high character"

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Files of pardons inactive and not granted, Case of Washington Goode

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.