Passed Resolves; Resolves 1838, c.34, SC1/series 228, Petition of Otis Thompson

<p>Petition subject: Annexation of Texas </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670543">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10670543</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Rehoboth </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Daggett, Attleboro </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Otis Thompson</li><li>William Carpenter</li><li>William H. Salisbury</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 46 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 46 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: citizens, [minors] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Printed </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Newspaper clippings on back </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.34, passed March 16, 1838 </p> <p>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.</p>