Council; Council Files September 22, 1843, Case of Isaac Leavitt, GC3/series 378, Petition of Peter Macy

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232954">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232954</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1843-08-23 </p> <p>Petition location: Nantucket </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Peter Macy</li><li>Charles A. Clark</li><li>George Gardner</li><li>John Swain</li><li>Reuben Macy</li><li>David Mitchell</li><li>Isaac Austin</li><li>Freeman Sherman</li><li>Tristram Coffin</li><li>Edward J. Pompey</li><li>William R. Robinson</li><li>Arthur Cooper Jr.</li><li>Mary Ann Folger</li><li>Mary Coffin</li><li>Lydia Mitchell</li><li>Absalom F. Boston</li><li>Ann Gardner</li><li>Sarah Ross</li><li>Charles Godfrey</li><li>Temperance Gardner</li><li>Patience Cooper</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 400 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 229 </p> <p>Female signatures: 136 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 35 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [females], [females of color], [males 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>: 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: Isaac Leavitt </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, September 22, 1843, Case of Isaac Leavitt </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>