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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670592

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Mendon

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ralph Sanger, Dover; committee on the annexation of Texas

Selected signatures:

1. John W. Alexander
2. William T. Russell
3. Moses Daniels

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-10

Legislative action: Received in the House and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas and received in the Senate on January 10, 1838 and concurred

Total signatures: 85

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 85

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: First representative asked was Staples, Mendon; includes note, signatures were transcribed/copied

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1845, c.131, passed March 26, 1845

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.