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Petition subject: Execution case

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208730

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Boston

Selected signatures:

1. John T. Hilton
2. Robert Morris Jr.
3. Henry Weeden
4. William Wells Brown
5. Lewis Hayden
6. James Smith
7. A.A. Gaskin
8. Peter F. Gill
9. Jane A.M. Henry
10. Henry Johnson
11. Sylvia Lewis
12. William Redding
13. Benjamin P. Bassett
14. George Washington
15. Mary Washington
16. Sarah Logan
17. Mary Randolph
18. Lucretia Hilton
19. Joseph N. Butler
20. Benjamin F. Roberts
21. Judith Stewart
22. Isabella S. Holmes
23. Samuel Snowden
24. Eliza Williams
25. Thomas Freeman
26. Mary Roberts
27. Charles O. Coleman
28. Eliza Giles
29. William H. Logan
30. Patrick H. Allen
31. Ellen Garrison
32. Alexandar Nicolas
33. Robert Johnson
34. Mary Gibson
35. Sarah Myers

Total signatures: 118

Females of color signatures: 55

Males of color signatures: 47

Unidentified signatures: 16

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [females of color], [males of color]

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: Washington Goode; additional documents include list of towns and number of signatures on each petition; petition needs conservation

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.