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- GLC#
- GLC02772
- Type
- Documents
- Date
- February 25, 1836
- Author/Creator
- Jackson, Andrew, 1767-1845
- Title
- [Delay of execution of John Arthur Bowen].
- Place Written
- Washington, District of Columbia
- Pagination
- 1 p. : Height: 32 cm, Width: 25 cm
- Primary time period
- National Expansion and Reform, 1815-1860
- Sub-Era
- Age of Jackson
Countersigned by Secretary of State John Forsyth. Bowen, an enslaved person, had been convicted of an unspecified felony in the District of Columbia in November 1835, and sentenced to be hung on 26 February 1836. Because of "divers good and sufficient reasons," the original date of death is postponed until the first Sunday in June next.
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