Council; Files of Inactive Pardons and Pardons Not Granted, Case of Washington Goode, GC3/series 771, Petition of Henry Chapin

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233063">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233063</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Worcester </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Henry Chapin</li><li>Henry F. Bishop</li><li>William B. Taber</li><li>John Milton Earle</li><li>Benjamin Wheeler</li><li>Calvin Knowlton</li><li>E.W. Carter</li><li>A.W. Cox</li><li>Effingham L. Capron</li><li>Thomas Jones</li><li>John Mason</li><li>Gerry Valentine</li><li>James Whipple</li><li>William Brown</li><li>John Hilton</li><li>John Quincy Adams</li><li>William A. Brigham</li><li>Ann Mason</li><li>James Walker</li><li>J.W. Walker</li><li>Caleb A. Wall</li><li>Sarah F. Earle</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1639 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 824 </p> <p>Female signatures: 324 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 491 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, [females], [males of color], [females of color], ["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>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>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 </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Files of pardons inactive and not granted, Case of Washington Goode </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>