ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233063

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Selected signatures:

1. Henry Chapin
2. Henry F. Bishop
3. William B. Taber
4. John Milton Earle
5. Benjamin Wheeler
6. Calvin Knowlton
7. E.W. Carter
8. A.W. Cox
9. Effingham L. Capron
10. Thomas Jones
11. John Mason
12. Gerry Valentine
13. James Whipple
14. William Brown
15. John Hilton
16. John Quincy Adams
17. William A. Brigham
18. Ann Mason
19. James Walker
20. J.W. Walker
21. Caleb A. Wall
22. Sarah F. Earle

Total signatures: 1639

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 824

Female signatures: 324

Unidentified signatures: 491

Female only signatures: No

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

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Washington Goode; three texts; titles next to signatures and "students in the medical institution" next to one section; note on copied signatures; last section of petition is a pamphlet with signatures; some signatures covered by glue or other pieces of paper, have transcribed these when visible

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.