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Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232907

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Fairhaven

Selected signatures:

1. Clother Gifford
2. Bartlett Allen
3. John Taber

Total signatures: 71

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 71

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Benjamin Cummings, Asa Clark Jr.; in the Liberator, Clother Gifford was described as "practical phrenologist, and teacher of natural, mental, moral and physiological science" and was a founder of Hopedale

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.