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[Penciled at top of page:] 2 Carr Petition n.d.

To Wm. King Esqr Governor & the Hon. Council of the State of Maine

The Subscribers Inhabitants of the County of Penobscot take the liberty respectfully to recommend Joseph Carr Esq. of Bangor as a suitable candidate to fill the office of Sheriff of this County

[Thirteen signatories bracketed as residents of:] Atkinson { Nathaniel Harvey Jonathan Harvey Asa Burnham Love Hanson Samuel C. Blunt [?] David Harvey Silas Brenton. John Cochran John Hart Moses Wasgatt David Frost James Porter Jacob Sherburne [?]

Sebec } Zadoc Ireland

[Five signatories bracketed as residents of:] Atkinson { Peter Page Levi Brown John Steele Johnston Lansbury [?] Zebadiah Holt

Sebec { Benjamin Bloom

[Two signatories bracketed as residents of:] No 3 = 7th Range { John W Tompson Jeremiah Griffon

[Three signatories bracketed as residents of:] Sebec { Robert Douglas Abijah Shaw [?] Joseph Clark

[Two signatories bracketed as residents of:] No 3 = 7 { John Lawliss [?] Asa Perry