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 by neighbors to Governor
Philip Francis Thomas asking for the pardon of Ann Mathews:
To His Excellency P. Frances Thomas Governer of Maryland
The undersinged Citezens of Baltimore, beg leave
most respectfully to recomend to your Exceliencys most mercyful consideration
the application for the pardon of Mrs Ann Matthews who has just been convicted
upon a charge of inducing a slave to run away from her master. The prisoner
is a lone woman far advanced in life and her incarceration in prison would
be an Act of great hardship if not barbarism. A pardon in such a case would
indeed be an Act of Mercy the propriety of which would hardly be called
in question.
We therefore hope that your Excellency may grant
unto this aged woman the benefit of the excercise of the mercyful prerogative
with which the Law has clothed you and restore her to an only daughter
who is sorely afflicted by this sudden stroke of misfortune.
W. C. Harris
Alexander H. Hobbs
Wm. L. Williamson
William Bagley Charles Street
James M. Hamlin
Allexander Atkinson
John Hammer
George W. Ruckly
Thos. C. Atkinson M. D.
James Phillips Jr
Henery Packer
E. M. Harris
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