Archives of Maryland
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Ann Matthews (b. 1805 - d. 1851)
MSA SC 5496-013784
Accomplice to slave flight, Baltimore City, Maryland, 1848

Maryland State Archives SECRETARY OF STATE (Pardon Papers) 1837-1947. MSA S1031, MdHR 5401-44, 2/46/2/4.
Petition to Governor Philip Francis Thomas asking for the pardon of Ann Mathews,:
 

To His Excellency,
    P. Francis Thomas
        Gov of Maryland,

    We the Undersigned, citizens of Baltimore, most respectfully recommend that Your Excellency grant unto Mrs Ann Matthews, now in prison under a conviction of having enticed a slave to run-away, the benefit of a pardon.
    The case is one in which Executive interferance would stand justified by every consideration of humanity and of public Justice and to which no heart properly constituted would take exception.

Benjn. Hobson         J. Briscoe
                                Wm Gilis
                                M. Turner
                                John Marshall
                                Wm Hindman
                                Jno. Nelson
                                J. Nevett Steele
                                J. J. Speed
                                W. W. Johnson
                                James Williams
                                Phineas A. Graves
                                H. T. Badden
                                E. P. Durham
 

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