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Witness Payment Report in U.S. vs Susan B. Anthony

6/1873

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Susan B. Anthony registered and voted in the election of 1872 in Rochester, New York. As planned, she was arrested for “knowingly, wrongfully and unlawfully vot[ing] for a representative to the Congress of the United States,” convicted by the State of New York, and fined.

This is a court document from the case U.S. vs. Susan B. Anthony stating that the witnesses from the trial were entitled to payment, for a total of $40.50.

This is one of several federal court cases involving women arrested for illegally voting in the 1872 election in Rochester, NY, 48 years before the 19th amendment passed in 1920.

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CLERK'S REPORT
At a [illegible] Session of the Circuit court of the United States of America, for
the Northern District of New York, held at the village of Cawandaigona on the Third Tues - day of June in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventy-three

THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA.
vs
Susan B. Anthony

To the Judge of the said Court:
I, the undersigned, clerk of the said court, respectfully report, that I have examined under oath, the persons hereinafter named, and that I find that they have been in attendance at the present term of the court, as Witnesses in behalf of the United States, in the above entitled cause, during the number days hereinafter specified, that they have respectively traveled the number of miles hereinafter stated, and that they are severally entitled therefor to the sums set opposite their respective names.

NAMES OF Witnesses DAYS ATTENDANCE. MILES TRAVELED. AMOUNT DUE.

James A. Cillman 
x Beverly W. Jones | 3 | 60 | $7.50
x Edwin T. Warrh | 3 | 60 | $7.50
x Sylvester Lewis 3 | 60 | $7.50
Silas Waggener
Daniel Warner
x William f. Morrison | 2 | 60 | $6.00
x Elisha J. Keeney | 4 | 60|  $9.00
x Margaret L. Leyden | 2 | - | $3.00

Ordered Marshal pay above amount -
Charles Masar
clerk



Pay Report
June Term
1873
This primary source comes from the Records of District Courts of the United States.
National Archives Identifier: 278298
Full Citation: U.S. vs Susan B. Anthony, Witness Payment Report; 6/1873; Susan B. Anthony Criminal Case File; Criminal Cases Files, 1870 - 1988; Records of District Courts of the United States, Record Group 21; National Archives at New York, New York, NY. [Online Version, https://www.docsteach.org/documents/document/anthony-payment-report, March 22, 2023]
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