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	SURRATT, MARY EUGENIA. The Columbia Encyclopedia: Sixth Edition. 2000 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Hanged with Mary Surratt and unquestionably guilty were Lewis Thornton Powell (or Payne), David E. Herold, and George A. Atzerodt.
		Mary Surratt’s son, who had participated in the abduction plot, was tried (June 10–Aug. 10, 1867) before a civil court.
		The prosecution, headed by Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt, never established that Mary Surratt even knew (although she might have known) of the abduction plot, and it now seems certain that she was not a party to the assassination plans.
	www.bartleby.com /aol/65/su/Surratt.html (320 words)

	MARY ELIZABETH JENKINS SURRATT
		Surratt was appointed postmaster on October 6, 1854, and the surrounding area was henceforth called Surrattsville, Maryland (On May 3, 1865, the Post Office Department changed the town's name to Robeystown, after the postmaster Andrew V. Robey, and subsequently to Clinton on October 10, 1878).
		Surratt was that she claimed she had never seen Lewis Paine before when he appeared at her boardinghouse on April 17.
		Surratt went to Surrattsville to get out the guns, Two Carbines, which had been taken to that place by Herold, this was on Friday." On the face of it, this statement by Atzerodt would certainly seem to point towards Mary Surratt's complicity with John Wilkes Booth.
	geocities.com /legal1two/surratt.html (989 words)

	Surratt, Mary Eugenia - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-19)
		Surratt, Mary Eugenia, 1820-65, alleged conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, hanged on July 7, 1865.
		Mary Surratt's son, who had participated in the abduction plot, was tried (June 10-Aug. 10, 1867) before a civil court.
		The prosecution, headed by Judge Advocate General Joseph Holt, never established that Mary Surratt even knew (although she might have known) of the abduction plot, and it now seems certain that she was not a party to the assassination plans.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-surratt.html (440 words)

	PoeForward Executed Dead Girls - Mary Surratt
		Mary Jenkins was born in Waterloo, Maryland and schooled in a Catholic female seminary.
		Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlin, Edward Spangler and Samuel Arnold were all charged with conspiring to murder Lincoln.
		Surratt was dressed in fl, her head covered in a fl bonnet, her face hidden behind a veil.
	www.poeforward.com /deadgirls/surratt.html (4461 words)

	Mary Surratt
		Surratt decided to rent the Surrattsville property for $500 a year to an ex-policeman, John M. Lloyd, and moved to a house she owned at 541 High Street, Washington.
		Surratt's borders, and John M. Lloyd, the man who rented the tavern at Surrattsville, were also arrested and threatened with being charged with the murder of Abraham Lincoln.
		Mary Surratt, Lewis Powell, George Atzerodt, David Herold, Samuel Mudd, Michael O'Laughlin, Edman Spangler and Samuel Arnold were found guilty of being involved in the conspiracy to murder Lincoln.
	www.spartacus.schoolnet.co.uk /USACWsurratt.htm (3242 words)

	Mary Surratt
		Mary Surratt: the first woman executed by the US Late in the summer of 1840, John Harrison Surratt of the District of Columbia was married to Mary Elizabeth Jenkins of southern Prince George's County.
		Mary was born in 1823, not far from the site of Surratt House, and her parents and grandparents resided on land that is today part of Andrews Air Force Base.
		Surratt rented the tavern and farm to an ex-policeman named John Lloyd and, in October, 1864, moved to a townhouse which the family owned at 541 H Street in Washington City.
	www.civil-war-tribute.com /assassins-mary-surratt.htm (1170 words)

	This Day in History 1865: Mary Surratt is first woman executed by U.S. federal government
		Mary Surratt is executed by the U.S. government for her role as a conspirator in Abraham Lincoln's assassination.
		Surratt, who owned a tavern in Surrattsville (now Clinton), Maryland, had to convert her row house in Washington, D.C., into a boardinghouse as a result of financial difficulties.
		It was Surratt's association with Booth that ultimately led to her conviction, though debate continues as to the extent of her involvement and whether it really warranted so harsh a sentence.
	www.history.com /tdih.do?action=tdihArticleYear&id=1059 (604 words)

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		Mary's husband died in 1862 and after trying to run the place on her own for two years she moved the family to Washington DC.
		Surratt's house in the heart of the capital, that the plot was hatched to kidnap and hold for ransom the President of the United States.
		Now these three days before the assassination Mary Surratt showed up at her old tavern and quizzed the lessee as to whether the carbines were ready and accessible.
	www.ilstu.edu /~ftmorn/cjhistory/casestud/surratt.html (1152 words)

	Freedom Network - williambova.net
		Mary Surratt, scapegoated as one of the prime conspirators, was sentenced to death by hanging.
		Surratt was a provision that a petition for mercy would be attached and sent to President Andrew Johnson.
		Surratt, and George A. Atzerodt to be hung, a crowd of citizens outside responded to the verdict with angry shouts of "Judicial murder!" Mrs.
	uts.cc.utexas.edu /~wbova/fn/history/lincoln_03.htm (1163 words)

	Civil War Congressional Medal of Honor Recipients - Abraham Lincoln's Trial of the Assassination Conspirators
		Surratt, David Harold (sic), and George A. Atzerodt, were hung by the neck until they were dead, in execution of the sentence of the Military Commission, duly approved by the President, for the crime of conspiracy and treason and murder.
		Surratt was kept in her old cell, attended by her daughter, Miss Anna Surratt, and two Catholic clergymen of this city.
		Surratt conversed freely with the Catholic priests on the crime for which she was convicted, claiming all the time it is understood, that she was innocent of any complicity in the assassination of the President.
	www.medalofhonor.com /AbeLincolnAssassinationConspiratorsTrial.htm (2025 words)

	Mary Surratt: the first woman executed by the US
		Mary Elizabeth Jenkins was born in Waterloo, Maryland in the spring of 1823.
		Mary struggled valiantly to survive the mountain of debts left her by her husband, but the war made it virtually impossible to collect on debts owed to the tavern.
		Mary Surratt’s son, John Harrison Surratt Jr., continuing the Confederate sympathies of his father, began allowing southern sympathizers to use the boardinghouse for surreptitious meetings.
	www.coco.essortment.com /marysurratt_rtmf.htm (1125 words)

	Docket - The Serious Issue of the War on Terrorism - December 2004
		Mary Surratt, David Harold, Lewis Payne, and George Atzerott were tried, convicted, and executed for their involvement in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln and other high government officials.
		Before we completely leave poor Mary Surratt to the dustbin of history, there are a few more interesting tidbits about her.
		Surratt’s attorneys sought a writ of habeas corpus on Sixth Amendment grounds.
	www.cobar.org /docket/doc_articles.cfm?ArticleID=3985 (668 words)

	Mary Surratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Mary Elizabeth Eugenia Jenkins Surratt (May/June 1823 in Waterloo, Maryland, USA – July 7, 1865 in Washington, D.C), was a member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy and the first woman executed by the United States federal government, for her role in the conspiracy.
		Mary was born to Archibald Jenkins and Elizabeth Anne in southern Maryland.
		On July 7, 1865, around 1:15 P.M., a nearly fainting Mary Surratt and the rest of the condemned prisoners were led through the courtyard, with their hands manacled and legs chained with heavy irons and 75-pound iron balls, past their own graves, and up the thirteen steps to the gallows to be hanged.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Mary_Surratt (1776 words)

	Mary Surratt Summary
		Mary was born to Archibald Jenkins and Elizabeth Anne in southern Maryland.
		On the day of the assassination, Mary rode out to her tavern with one of her boarders, Louis J. Weichmann, a young War Department clerk, who was a friend of her son, John Surratt, Jr.
		On July 7, 1865, around 1:15 P.M., Mary Surratt and the rest of the condemned prisoners were lead through the courtyard, with their hands manacled and legs chained with heavy irons, past their own graves, and up the thirteen steps to the gallows to be hanged.
	www.bookrags.com /Mary_Surratt (1586 words)

	HAUNTED MARYLAND
		The Surratt House, Clinton, MD. Mary Surratt was found guilty of conspiracy for the assassination of President Lincoln.
		She was executed by hanging at the at Ft. McNair in D.C. Mary ran this tavern with her son in rural Maryland.
		Mary Surratt is buried at Mt. Olivet Cemetery.
	www.paranormalghost.com /haunted_maryland.htm (1009 words)

	Georgetown Law - Published Articles (GLH)
		In 1864, poverty forced Mary to lease the farm and tavern to John Lloyd and move to a house in Washington, DC.
		Lewis Weichman, one of Mary's boarders, testified that the defendants spent time at her boarding house and often met with her, that she carried supplies between Surrattsville and Washington and told Lloyd to be prepared to harbor Booth and his accomplices.
		Mary's defenders argued that as a wife, mother, and lady, she could not have been involved in politics.
	www.law.georgetown.edu /glh/jestin.htm (620 words)

	JURIST - The Trial of the Lincoln Assassination Conspirators
		Surratt told investigators, "Before God, sir, I do not know this man, and have never seen him, and I did not hire him to dig a gutter for me." While in the Surratt home, investigators uncovered various pieces of incriminating evidence, including a picture of John Wilkes Booth hidden behind another picture on a mantelpiece.
		Weichmann, a boarder in Surratt's home, testified that Booth gave him $10 on the Tuesday before the assassination which he was to use to hire a buggy to take Surratt to her tavern in Surrattsville to collect--according to Surratt--a small debt.
		Surratt's attorney, Frederick Aiken, argued that Lloyd's evidence should be disbelieved because he was "a man addicted to the excessive use of intoxicating liquors" and was motivated to "exculpate himself by placing blame" on Mary Surratt.
	jurist.law.pitt.edu /trials25.htm (6765 words)

	John Wilkes Booth: A Brutus Of His Age
		Surratt served as emissary between Wilkes and the Southern Underground.
		The conspirators usually met at Surratt’s mother’s boarding house at 541 H Street, near the federal district of the city.
		After all, the Surratts and their lodgers were workaday people, and what middle-class family wouldn’t be thrilled to have the most glamorous actor of his day as a house guest?
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/assassins/booth/8.html (1120 words)

	Surratt House Museum: Museums, Galleries, Monuments and Memorials in Clinton, MD on washingtonpost.com's City Guide
		The country home of Mary Surratt, who was convicted of conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to kill President Lincoln and was the first woman to be executed by the U.S. government.
		Mary Surratt, and her house in Clinton, then called Surrattsville, come back into play shortly before the assassination.
		Surratt "was his own best customer"), a polling place and a post office.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/cityguide/profile?id=793254&p=print (548 words)

	THE DAY LINCOLN WAS SHOT - The Characters
		Her son, John Harrison Surratt, became associated with Booth after they moved to a boarding house that she owned in Washington D.C. She was charged with conspiracy along with the others on May 10, 1865, found guilty and hanged on July 7 -- the first woman to be hanged by the U.S. Government.
		Surratt, no doubt, held many of the views of his father who was a known Southern sympathizer.
		Surratt met with Booth at his mother's boarding house in Washington D.C. and was in on the kidnapping plan.
	www.turnerlearning.com /tntlearning/lincoln/characters.html (1384 words)

	John Surratt - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Surratt (April 13, 1844 - April 21, 1916), son of Mary Surratt, was accused of plotting to kidnap U.S. president Abraham Lincoln.
		Surratt stayed hidden there throughout the arrest, trial and hanging of his mother, Mary Surratt.
		Surratt was tried in a civilian court of the District of Columbia, instead of a military one as his mother had been.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/John_Surratt (635 words)

	Mary Surratt
		Surratt House Museum complex is owned and operated by a government agency, the Maryland-National Capital Park and Planning Commission.
		Surratt would be swung from the end of it, but she was, and it was demonstrated to my satisfaction, at least, that a five-turn knot will perform as successful a job as a seven-turn knot."
		SURRATT." (The photograph is from Mary Surratt: An American Tragedy by Elizabeth Steger Trindal).
	members.aol.com /RVSNorton/Lincoln26.html (1535 words)

	Travel: Cincinnati.Com
		The Surratt House, just south of Washington is where Booth stashed guns and other supplies for his flight, and tour guides are quick point out the narrow slot in the attic as a hiding place for the weapons.
		Surratt and her husband once ran a tavern and tobacco farm on 300 acres outside Washington, but the Civil War and the death of her husband ruined the business.
		Surratt was doomed by the testimony of her tenant farmer, John Lloyd, who told a military court she stored field glasses and guns at her house in Clinton for Booth.
	www.cincinnati.com /travel/stories/050502_lincoln.html (708 words)

	Mary (Eugenia) Surratt Biography - Biography.com
		Mary Surratt has the dubious distinction of being the first woman executed by the U.S. government.
		Surratt was educated at a Catholic female seminary and married John Surratt in 1840.
		Surratt’s son, John, Jr., was also thought to be involved in the conspiracy, but he fled to Canada.
	www.biography.com /search/article.do?id=9499375 (291 words)

	SurrattPage
		Mary E. Surratt, who was chosen by the Jesuits as the arch conspirator in the assassination of Abraham Lincoln, had studied three years in preparation for the Roman priesthood at the Sulpician Fathers monastery, at Charles County, Maryland, previous to the breaking out of the Civil war.
		At this Sulpician monastery Surratt was introduced to another theological P student, Louis J. Weichmann of Philadelphia with whom he formed a close friendship, when in 1862 young Surratt was called to his home in Surrattville, a crossroads village 13 miles south of Washington, by the death of his father.
		The elder Surratt had been a railroad contractor, and had accumulated some money which was partly invested in slaves and a plantation and tavern at Surrattville where he served as postmaster at the time of his demise.
	www.thebibletruth.org /LincolnP.htm (4040 words)

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		Surratt was never allowed to testify in her own behalf.
		Surratt's last confession to priest Father Walter was "That I am innocent." NO reprieve was given in her behalf.
		Mary E. Jenkins Surratt was given wine of valerine the night before the execution.
	mywebpage.netscape.com /pamelaplace/Surratt4.html (1510 words)

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		Surratt insisted that she was innocent, but she was sentenced to death after a trial that was held at the Old Arsenal Penitentiary.
		Surratt was innocent, others say she was in on the plot to kill President Lincoln.
		Surratt's home to pick up the field glasses that Mary left that day, along with some weapons that she said would be needed soon.
	tiger.towson.edu /users/shobbs1/page2.htm (928 words)

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