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Petition to the General Assembly to issue a stay of execution for John Gordon
To the Honorable General Assembly now is session at Providence.
The undersigned, citizens of the State of Rhode-Island, would call the attention of your Hon-
ors to the case of JOHN GORDON, now confined in the Jail of the county of Providence,…
Petition for reprieve by John Gordon
To the Honorable the General Assembly of the
State of Rhode-Island, in session in Provi-
dence, January, 1845
John Gordon, a convict sen-
tenced to be executed on the 14th day of Feb-
ruary next - averring, as he has ever done,
his innocence…
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