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Petition subject: Appointment of Justice of the Peace

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12232910

Date of creation: 1842-10-27

Petition location: Westborough

Selected signatures:

1. Moses G. Maynard
2. Solomon T. Fay
3. Martin Bullard

Total signatures: 27

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: citizens, legal voters

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Nahum Harrington, appointment, remonstrance, justice of the peace, magistrate, includes the occupation or social standing of each man who signed the petition with note from Nahum Harrington on the gathering of signatures

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, December 19, 1842, Case of Nahum Harrington

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.