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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670538

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Paxton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Reverend Tyler Goddard, Paxton

Selected signatures:

1. Jonathan P. Grosvenor
2. James Day
3. Joseph Thurston

Total signatures: 58

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 58

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: inhabitants, ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Printed

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

Additional archivist notes: Newspaper clippings on back

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.