Council; Council Files December 19, 1842, Case of Nahum Harrington, GC3/series 378, Petition of Gardner Cloyes

Petition subject: Appointment of Justice of the Peace Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208715 Date of creation: 1842-06-18 Petition location: Westborough Selected signatures:Gardner CloyesThomas StonePhilo Clapp Actions taken on dates: 1842-06-30 Legislative action: Not to be acted on, June 30, 1842 Total signatures: 203 Legislative action summary: Not to be acted on Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 203 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: citizens Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Nahum Harrington, Lyman L. Mason, Worcester county, warrant, complaint, Homan Halleck, vagrant act, trial, evidence, testimony, seen eating some food while sitting on the door steps of John A. Fayerweather store, walking up and down in the street, guilty, sentenced to be confined in the house of correction in Worcester for the space of thirty days, imprisonment, Unionville, [Ashland?], Hopkinton, employment, railroad company, sawing wood, agent, depot, contract, cistern full of water, wood saw, Mr. Harris, breakfast, unjustly deprived of their liberty, innocent until proven guilty, because the man was black, release Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, December 19, 1842, Case of Nahum Harrington 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.