Council; Council Files April 17, 1847, Case of Leander Thompson, GC3/series 378, Petition of James B. Richards

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233036">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233036</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James B. Richards</li><li>John H. Crane</li><li>Wendell Phillips</li><li>Samuel E. Sewall</li><li>Robert F. Wallcut</li><li>William C. Nell</li><li>Bela Marsh</li><li>Loring Moody</li><li>William Lloyd Garrison</li><li>James N. Buffum</li><li>Augustine C. Taft</li><li>Edmund Quincy</li><li>Henry I. Bowditch</li><li>Walter Channing</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 25 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [males of color] </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: Leander Thompson; towns next to names including Boston, Warren, Lynn, Dedham, Abington, Marlborough, Stoneham, Millbury, Needham </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, April 17, 1847, Case of Leander Thompson </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>