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

<p>Petition subject: Execution case </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232947">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232947</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1843-07-14 </p> <p>Petition location: Hingham </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Oliver Stearns</li><li>James Nelson</li><li>Gorham Lincoln</li><li>David Andrews</li><li>William Cushing</li><li>Thomas Waterman Stoddard</li><li>Sereno Howe</li><li>William Cushing</li><li>Mary B. Stearns</li><li>Frances E. Lovett</li><li>Hannah H. Hinckley</li><li>Eliza A. Thaxter</li><li>Catherine K. Thaxter</li><li>Anna Quincy Thaxter</li><li>Betsey Andrews</li><li>Rhoda Beal</li><li>Temperance Wilde</li><li>Clara Crowninshield</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 180 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 78 </p> <p>Female signatures: 89 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 13 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [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: Isaac Leavitt; includes letter enclosing the petition from August 22, 1843, states that hundreds more signatures could have been gathered, from Quincy Hersey </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>