File #5716: "Carr petition N D page 1.pdf"

[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

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