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Atkinson 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 Carr Esq to be made High Sheriff of the County of Penobscot the circumstances of which I would beg leave to represent --

Said petitions were written by Francis Carr Brother to Joseph Carr and sent round by an hireling who represented that General Herrick must inevitably go out of office and that unless we signed his petitions we should without doubt have a person less 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