September   – John Marshall Clemens sat on a jury at Palmyra which condemned and sent to the penitentiary  three abolitionists for a term of twelve years [Dempsey  42; Wecter 72]. Note:  See Dempsey, chapters 5 & 6, for a full account of the “crime” and trial of  James Burr, George Thompson, and Alanson Work, “the  biggest criminal case in Marion County.”