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Mary Elizabeth Jenkins Surratt (1820 or May 1823 – July 7, 1865) was an American boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., who was convicted of taking part in the conspiracy which led to the assassination of U.S. President Abraham Lincoln in 1865.
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Nov 9, 2009 · Mary Surratt was an alleged member of the Abraham Lincoln assassination conspiracy, the first woman executed by the U.S. government. She was a boarding house owner in Washington, D.C., where Booth and his accomplices met and planned the plot. She was arrested, tried and convicted by a military commission in 1865.
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- The mother of John Surratt Jr., who admitted to conspiring with John Wilkes Booth to kidnap the president, but was never convicted of assisting in his murder.
- The mother of Anna Surratt, who frantically fought to spare Mary from the gallows. Twenty-two years old at the time of Mary’s conviction, Anna was desperate and alone: Her health was failing, her father was long dead, her house was mortgaged to pay her mother’s lawyer, one brother was on the run, another was missing in action and the eyes of an entire nation were transfixed on her family.
- A young widow and boardinghouse owner. After the death of her alcoholic (and, in some historians’ view, abusive) husband in 1862, Mary Surratt found herself in dire financial straits.
- A Southern sympathizer whose family relied on slave labor and provided a safe haven for Confederate spies. The site of several major Civil War battles, Maryland was a land of contradictions during that pivotal moment in U.S. history.
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- Mary Surratt Boardinghouse. Picture Gallery. Mary Surratt was tried and convicted and executed as a co-conspirator in the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
- John Surratt Jr. Many have believed that the government prosecuted Mary Surratt as a co-conspirator in the plot to kidnap or kill President Abraham Lincoln in order to persuade John Surratt to leave Canada and turn himself in to prosecutors.
- John Surratt Jr. When John Surratt Jr., on a trip as a Confederate courier to New York, heard of the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln, he escaped to Montreal, Canada.
- Surratt Jury. This image depicts the jurors who convicted Mary Surratt of being a conspirator in the plot that led to the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln.
Apr 30, 2024 · Mary Surratt (born May/June 1823, near Waterloo, Maryland, U.S.—died July 7, 1865, Washington, D.C.) was an American boardinghouse operator, who, with three others, was convicted of conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln.
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Mar 4, 2019 · Mary Surratt was a boardinghouse operator and tavern keeper who was the first woman to be executed by the U.S. federal government for conspiracy to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. She was convicted with John Wilkes Booth and others in 1865, but claimed she was innocent and ill. Learn about her life, trial, and execution from this biography.
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Mar 22, 2024 · Learn about Mary Surratt, the first woman executed by the federal government for her involvement in the plot to assassinate President Abraham Lincoln. Explore the evidence against her, the ambiguity of her guilt, and the historical drama Manhunt.
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