New York State Department of State Executive Orders for Commutations, Pardons, Restorations, and Respites
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Overview of the Records
Repository:
New York State Archives
New York State Education Department
Cultural Education Center
Albany, NY 12230
Summary:
This series consists of executive orders for pardons, commutations, restorations of citizenship or respites. Each order includes
the date, convict's name, crime, place where tried, sentence, place of incarceration, and the governor's signature. Commutations
also include the commutation terms. Respites also contain date where tried, execution date, and dates of respite. There are
no name indexes.
Creator:
Title:
Executive orders for commutations, pardons, restorations, and respites
Quantity:
Inclusive Dates:
1840-1929
Series Number:
B0049
Arrangement
Arranged by type of order (the pardons are sometimes separated from the commutations, restorations and respites, which are
bound together and arranged therein chronologically by date).
Scope and Content Note
This series consists of twenty-eight bound volumes of executive orders directing the secretary of state to "make out" pardons,
commutations, restorations of citizenship or respites. Under the provisions of the state's constitutions, the governor has
the authority to issue these instruments. Each respite for pardon contains the date, convict's name, crime, place where tried,
sentence, and place of incarceration, and the governor's signature. The commutations contain the date, convict's name, crime,
place where tried, sentence, place of incarceration, terms of the commutation, and the signature of the governor. The restorations
contain the same information as the pardons. The respites contain the date, convict's name, crime (usually murder), place
and date where tried, date of execution, dates of respite, and the signature of the governor. There are no name indexes to
the volumes.
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Detailed Description
| Dates |
Contents |
Box |
Volume |
Accretion: B0049-78 |
| 1840-1844 |
Pardons |
1 |
1 |
| 1855-1860 |
Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
6 |
6 |
|
Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
8 |
8 |
| 1867-1868 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
9 |
9 |
| 1869-1870 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
10 |
10 |
| 1871-1872 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
11 |
11 |
| 1873-1874 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
11 |
12 |
| 1875-1876 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
12 |
13 |
| 1877-1878 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
13 |
14 |
| 1879 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
14 |
15 |
| 1880-1883 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
15 |
16 |
| 1884-1885 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
16 |
17 |
| 1886-1888 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
17 |
18 |
| 1889-1891 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
18 |
19 |
| 1892-1894 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
19 |
20 |
| 1895-1898 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
20 |
21 |
| 1899-1904 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
21 |
22 |
| 1905-1914 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
22 |
23 |
| 1915-1918 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
23 |
24 |
| 1919-1920 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
24 |
25 |
| 1924-1925 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
25 |
26 |
| 1926-1927 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
26 |
27 |
| 1928-1929 |
Pardons, Commutations, Restorations, and Respites |
26 |
28 |
