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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670544

Date of creation: 1838-01-22

Petition location: Barnstable

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Hinckley, Barnstable

Selected signatures:

1. [Jonas Hill?]
2. Luke Chase
3. C.H. Chessman
4. Edna L. Hinkly
5. Lucinda Scudder

Total signatures: 181

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 100

Female signatures: 81

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, males, females

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

Signatory column format: column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: [Not sure on first name]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.34, passed March 16, 1838

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.