Council; Council Files July 25, 1839, Case of Benjamin Cummings, GC3/series 378, Petition of Henry C. Wright

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232903">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232903</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Henry C. Wright</li><li>Lucinda Wilmarth</li><li>Elijah Bird</li><li>Isaac Knapp</li><li>Peter E. Sanborn</li><li>Charles K. Whipple</li><li>Austin Bearse</li><li>Maria Weston Chapman</li><li>Joseph Southwick</li><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>Clement Drew</li><li>Samuel Philbrick</li><li>William Comstock</li><li>Robert F. Wallcut</li><li>Caroline Weston</li><li>M.V. Ball [Martha Violet Ball?]</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 57 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 39 </p> <p>Female signatures: 10 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 8 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], ["others"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Benjamin Cummings, Asa Clark Jr. </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, July 25, 1839, Case of Benjamin Cummings </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>