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

<p>Petition subject: Appointment of Justice of the Peace </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232909">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232909</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Westborough </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Gosen Chamberlain</li><li>Gardner Cloyes</li><li>Thomas Stone</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 142 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 142 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: legal voters </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: Nahum Harrington, justice of the peace, Worcester county, ought not to be recommissioned, maladministration, infirm, irritable temper and disposition, passions, Joseph Baxter, Daniel Bowman, disorderly, vagrant, vagabond, idle, begging, 1837, witnesses, charges, imprisonment, house of correction in Worcester, stranger, evidence, beggar, 1842, Homan Halleck, Isaac F. Warren, 1838, Russell Bowman, common drunkard, testimony, contemptuous language, trial, misconduct, depositions, Southborough, Peter Fay, purchased exemption from a legal investigation, extreme clemency, chief magistrate, matter of duty as your citizens, deprived of their personal freedom under the sanction of law, do not feel at liberty to be silent </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, December 19, 1842, Case of Nahum Harrington </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>