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Snow [?] October 28th 1820 To his Excellency William King, Sir I take the liberty to inform you that there has been several petitions circulating in this neighborhood for Joseph Care Esq. to be made High Sheriff of the County of Penobscot the circumstances of which I would beg have to represent ~ Said petitions were written by Francis Care Brother to Joseph Care and sent round by [?] who represented that General H[???] must inevitably go out of office and that [?] we signed his petitions [?] without doubt have a person [?] suitable to fill said office ~ My neighbors say that they have been deceived; many of them that they did not know what they were signing that they would.