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- Legal Documents- Originals
- Primary Sources
- Newspaper Articles- Primary Sources
- Newspaper Articles- Secondary Sources
- Articles, Secondary Sources
- Daley & Halligan- Catholic History
- Daley & Halligan- Local History
- Bicentenniel Commemoration Events
An excerpt from Ezekiel Terry's written account of the Daley & Halligan murder trial and execution detailing each man's final words. (For full text, see Primary Sources below.)
Daley & Halligan- Last Words
Legal Documents- Originals
Proclamation of Exoneration of Daley & Halligan by Massachusetts Governor Michael Dukakis, March 16, 1984.
The inquisition on Marcus Lyon. Written record consisting of statements by Moses K. Bartlett, John Brewer, John Morgan, Pliny Bliss, Elisha Shepard, Griffin Baily, John Powers, Robert Stanton, Laertes Fuller, John Bliss, and an unidentified witness concerning the events surrounding the murder of Marcus Lyon, including the murder scene. November 1805.
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Governor's Proclamation to offer reward of $500.00 to any person who apprehended the Marcus Lyon's murderer(s) and saw them prosecuted and found guilty. November 12, 1805, Boston, MA.
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Prosecuting Attorney John Hooker's testimony that Josiah Bardwell was the principal man in pursuit of Marcus Lyon's murders, and that Jeremy Bliss played a minor part in the apprehension of Daley & Halligan. This testimony was confirmed by Massachusetts Supreme Court Justices Theodore Sedgwick and Samuel Sewell. April 25, 1806.
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Josiah Bardwell's bill of expenses for the apprehension and prosecution through conviction on Daley and Halligan, approved by Prosecuting Attorney John Hooker on April 25, 1806.
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Jeremy Bliss' bill of expenses for the apprehension of Daley & Halligan, including written approval by Prosecuting Attorney John Hooker. April 25, 1806
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Warrant drawn on the Treasury for five hundred dollars in favor of Josiah Bardwell and Jeremy Bliss for the apprehension and prosecution through conviction of Daley & Halligan.
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Command from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Court that Suffolk County officials in Boston summon Samuel Torry and Andrew Eliot Symmes to appear before the Justices at Northampton to testify at the Marcus Lyon murder trial. April 14, 1806.
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Letter to Attorney General James Sullivan from Samuel Torry of Boston requesting to be excused from testifying at the Daley and Halligan trial. April 15, 1806.
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Command from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Court that Hampshire County officials in Springfield summon Dan Stebbins, Samuel Lyman, and Griffin Bailey to appear before the Justices at Northampton to testify at the Marcus Lyon murder trial. April 22, 1806.
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Command from the Commonwealth of Massachusetts Supreme Court that Hampshire County officials in Springfield summon Oliver B. Morris and Hubard Bliss to appear before the Justices at Northampton to testify at the Marcus Lyon murder trial. April 23, 1806.
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Complete report of James Halligan and Dominic Daley's murder trial held in Northampton, Massachusetts on the fourth Tuesday of April, 1806.
Trial
Jury statement communicating their interpretation of the events surrounding the murder of Marcus Lyon.
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Jury verdict condemning Dominick Daley and James Halligan to death for the murder of Marcus Lyon.
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Warrant for the execution of Daley & Halligan, ordered by Governor Caleb Strong.
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Dominick Daley's mother, Ann Daley, wrote a petition to Governor Caleb Strong requesting a pardon for her son.
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Primary Sources
Exerpts from a discourse (transcript) occasioned by the murder of Marcus Lyon and delivered by Ezra Witter, A.M., on November 17, 1805 in Wilbraham, Massachusetts. Witter was the Congregationalist Minister of North Wilbraham parish whose territory included the murder scene.
"A Brief Account (transcript) of the Murder of Marcus Lyon also the Particulars of the Detection of Murderers & the Last Dying Words of the Unhappy Sufferers & and Elergy on the Execution Composed Soon After." This was written in June or July 1806 by Ezekiel Terry who was a printer/preacher in Wilbraham. He lived on the Palmer town line.
Newspaper Articles- Primary Sources
Governor's Proclaimation- Independent Chronicle 9 November 1805.
"Murder!" American Mercury 14 November 1805.
"An extract of a letter from Northampton, dated Nov. 12, 1805" Independent Chronicle 18 November1805.
Announcement of Arrest Daily Hampshire Gazette 20 November 1805.
"Robbery and Murder!" American Mercury 5 December 1805.
Article Hampshire Federalist 3 June 1806. This article lists the details of the upcoming execution of Daley & Halligan.
"Execution" Hampshire Federalist 10 June 1806.
"Announcement of Execution" Daily Hampshire Gazette 11 June 1806
Newspaper Articles- Secondary Sources
"About Old Times"- Daily Hampshire Gazette 1 February 1870.
150th Anniversary Commemoration - Daily Hampshire Gazette 24 April 1956
Manning, Alice, "Hampshire Facts..." Daily Hampshire Gazette (?) April 1982.
Sege, Irene, "Justice sought 176 years after 2 men hanged," Boston Globe 13 June 1982.
Lockwood, Allison, "The 1806 Trial of Daley & Halligan" Daily Hampshire Gazette 22 November 1997.
Cahillane, Jim, "Execution about revenge, not justice" Daily Hampshire Gazette 18 January 2000.
Orzechowski, Edward, "'Garden of Martyrs' depicts 1806 hangings" Sunday Republican 13 March 2005: HFP9.
Contrada, Fred, "'Justice' late for Irish pair," Springfield Republican (?) 2005.
Phaneuf, Wayne, "Looking Backward: A Case of Bigotry," Springfield Republican n/d.
Stevens, Peter F., "Objection Overruled! A Look Back at Boston's Irish 'Legal Eagles'" Boston Irish Reporter November 2005.
Stevens, Peter F., "In 1806, James Sullivan Vaulted into the Governor's Office by Prosecuting to the Gallows Two Innocent 'Sons of the Ould Sod'" Boston Irish Reporter December 2005.
Smith, Peter, "Events to remember 2 men hanged long ago" Daily Hampshire Gazette 6 January 2006.
Heim, Sarah J., "Old Hangings, Current Dilemmas: Daley Halligan 200th Raises Questions of Injustice Today" Daily Hampshire Gazette, 15 March, 2006.
Articles, Secondary Sources
Richard C. Garvey, "The Hanging of Daley and Halligan" in Daniel Aaron and Harold Faulkner, eds. The Northampton Book: Chapters from 300 Years in the Life of a New England Town, 1654-1954 (Northampton,MA, 1954) 90-95.
Hon. Robert Sullivan "The Murder Trial of Halligan and Daley-Northampton , Massachusetts, 1806" in Massachusetts Law Quarterly vol. XLIX, no. 3 (1964): 211-224.
James Malinoski, "The Hanging of Daley and Halligan...." (unpublished typescript)
Andrienne G. Clark, "Who Murdered Marcus Lyon?" New England Galaxy vol. 19, no. 2 (1977): 15-21. A summary of the murder of Marcus Lyon and the subsequent murder trial of Dominick Daley and James Halligan. This article also briefly mentions the origins of anti-Catholic sentiment in New England.
James M. Camposeo, "Anti-Catholic Prejudice in Early New England: The Daley-Halligan Murder Trail" Historic Journal of Western Massachusetts vol. 6, no. 2 (1978): 5-17.
Melvin G. Williams, "The Ballad of Marcus Lyon: The Story Lives On" in New York Folklore, Vol. 14, nos. 1-2 (Winter-Spring 1988): 123-131.
Daley & Halligan- Catholic History
"The Visit of Rev. Mr. Cheverus, Who Later Became a Cardinal" in Field Day Program of the Springfield Diocesan Union, July 4, 1903 (Father Matthew T.A. & B. Society: Northampton, MA, 1903)
Excerpt from Robert H. Lord, John E. Sexton, and Edward T. Harrington, History of the Archdiocese of Boston 1904 to 1943, Volume I (Sheed & Ward: New York, 1944) 622-626.
Excerpt from P.H. Gallen, How Popes Are Chosen and Other Essays (Stratford Co.: Boston, 1927) 41-57.
Daley & Halligan- Local History
Excerpt from Alice M. Walker, Mary Mattoon and Her Hero of the Revolution (Amherst, MA, 1902) 55.
Excerpt from Chauncey E. Peck, The History of Wilbraham, Massachusetts; prepared in connection with the celebration of the one hundred and fiftieth anniversary of the incorporation of the town, June 15, 1913 (Wilbraham, MA, 1913) 183-189.
Excerpt from "The Significance of the Blacksmith Shop (Located at 51 Mountain Road) to the Town of Wilbraham, Massachuestts" (unpublished paper)
Excerpt from Tracy Kidder, Home Town (Random House: New York, 1999) 157-163.
Miscellaneous
Daley & Halligan 2006 St. Patrick's Day Parade Float
Daley & Halligan 2006 St. Patrick's Day Parade Float (sides)
Northampton Human Rights Commission Statement
Unpublished letter by William O'Riordan to the editor of the Boston Globe in response to a previous letter to the editor incorrectly citing Irish governor James Sullivan as the "1st Catholic Governor."
Article
O'Riordan Letter
Poem, "Gallows Hill," author unknown
Poem, "Prisoner of History" by Helen O'Gara
Poem, "Lines" - Wrote relative to the Murder of Marcus Lyon, author unknown, n/d
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Map of the Stoneyhill District of Springfield/ Ludlow since 1774, including the Marcus Lyon murder site and related sites of interest to the murder trial.
Drawing of Daley & Halligan at the gallows on Pancake Plain in Northampton, MA by David Bourbeau, 1995
Portrait of Cardinal Jean Cheverus
Bicentenniel Commemoration Events
David Sullivan at Community Read Press Conference, March 15, 2006
James Cahillane views Daley & Halligan exhibit at Historic Northampton
Contents Historic Northampton.