 In all, 130 petitions from Massachusetts communities were compiled.A document entitled "Protest of 400 inhabitants of Concord against the execution of Washington Goode" is preserved at the Institute at Walden Woods as a document of vital historical interest in the history of human rights.In the effort to save Washington Goode from execution, 400 citizens of Concord, Massachusetts, including Henry David Thoreau, two of his sisters, Sophia Thoreau and Helen D. Thoreau, and his mother, Cynthia D. Thoreau, as well as Ralph Waldo Emerson, signed the petition now known as the "Protest of 400...against the execution of Washington Goode."