Council; Council Files September 1, 1832, Case of William Roby, GC3/series 378, Petition of William Sullivan

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208711">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208711</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>William Sullivan</li><li>Charles G. Loring</li><li>Henry H. Fuller</li><li>David Lee Child</li><li>Ralph Waldo Emerson</li><li>Harrison Gray Otis</li><li>Samuel E. Sewall</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 92 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 92 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, some of whom were present as jurors or otherwise at the trial of William Roby for the murder of Maria Leonard, and others of whom have become acquainted with the principal facts in the case from other sources </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: William Roby, Maria Leonard; many notes and lengthy statements next to signatures </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, September 1, 1832, Case of William Roby </p> <p>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.</p>