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Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232903

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Massachusetts

Selected signatures:

1. Henry C. Wright
2. Lucinda Wilmarth
3. Elijah Bird
4. Isaac Knapp
5. Peter E. Sanborn
6. Charles K. Whipple
7. Austin Bearse
8. Maria Weston Chapman
9. Joseph Southwick
10. William Lloyd Garrison
11. Clement Drew
12. Samuel Philbrick
13. William Comstock
14. Robert F. Wallcut
15. Caroline Weston
16. M.V. Ball [Martha Violet Ball?]

Total signatures: 57

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39

Female signatures: 10

Unidentified signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"]

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: Benjamin Cummings, Asa Clark Jr.

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, July 25, 1839, Case of Benjamin Cummings

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.