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[Penciled at top of page:] Thurston Petition Nov. 14, 1820
To the Honorable the Governor & Council of the State of Maine -
The Subscribers Respectfully beg leave to represent that John P. Thurston of Portland is in all respects duly qualified to exercise the duties of a Justice of the peace & Quorum [one illegible]
We therefore solicit that he my be appointed to that office, in which event we are fully of opinion that the publick Weal will shurely be promoted -
Portland Nov. 14 1820
Asa Clapp Cotton M. Marsh Lycee [sic?] Cutter [sic?] James Deering James Neal Isaac Ilsley.