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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670585

Date of creation: 1844-12

Petition location: North Brookfield

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Hiram Edson, North Brookfield; committee on the annexation of Texas

Selected signatures:

1. Timothy Hayward
2. Samuel Haskell
3. Henry Deland

Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-09,1845-01-10

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 9, 1845 and referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas and received in the Senate on January 10, 1845 and concurred

Total signatures: 189

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 189

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

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.