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[Respite of execution for slaver Nathaniel Gordon]

February 4, 1862

Lincoln, Abraham, 1809-1865

Countersigned by Secretary of State William H. Seward. Convicted of engaging in the slave trade, respite granted to allow Gordon to prepare for execution. He was the only slave trader in U.S. history to be executed for that crime and was executed...

GLC00182
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[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of Frank Doyle].

December 8, 1877

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

GLC01130.01
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Document signed

[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of John Smith].

30 April 1877

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

GLC01130.02
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[Presidential authority to the Secretary of State to affix the seal to the pardon of George W. Epley].

January 25, 1879

Hayes, Rutherford B., 1822-1893

GLC01130.03
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Prisoners in Worcester Goal

5 September 1780

Blake, Increase, fl. 1780

List of five prisoners in the Worcester, Massachusetts, jail. Also mentions reasons for imprisonment: two for not paying ministerial taxes, one for desertion, one as a prisoner of war, and one for threatening the life of another person in Worcester.

GLC01412.64.14

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