DOI: 10.7910/dvn/e5a1n
title: Council; Files of Inactive Pardons and Pardons Not Granted, Case of Washington Goode, GC3/series 771, Petition of John T. Hilton

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Execution case &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208730"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208730&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;John T. Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Morris Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Weeden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Wells Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Hayden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Smith&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;A.A. Gaskin&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peter F. Gill&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane A.M. Henry&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Henry Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sylvia Lewis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Redding&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin P. Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Washington&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Randolph&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucretia Hilton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph N. Butler&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Benjamin F. Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Judith Stewart&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isabella S. Holmes&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Snowden&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Roberts&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charles O. Coleman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eliza Giles&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William H. Logan&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patrick H. Allen&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ellen Garrison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexandar Nicolas&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Robert Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Gibson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Myers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 118 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 55 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 47 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: colored citizens, [females of color], [males of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Washington Goode; additional documents include list of towns and number of signatures on each petition; petition needs conservation &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Files of pardons inactive and not granted, Case of Washington Goode &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt;