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Petition subject: Annexation of Texas

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670537

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Medway

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Eleazar Daniels, Medway; committee on the annexation of Texas

Selected signatures:

1. Daniel Wiley
2. Otis Fairbank
3. Daniel Nurse
4. Eliab Metcalf

Legislative action: Referred to the committee on the annexation of Texas

Total signatures: 158

Legislative action summary: Referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 158

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

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.