Poll Record and Election Return from Second Company, First Battalion, Second Regiment, Second Cohort, 17 or 19 March 1841
Poll Record and Election Return from Second Company, First Battalion, Second Regiment, Second Cohort, 17 or 19 March 1841
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Poll Record and , , and Horace Fish, Election Return from Second Company, First Battalion, Second Regiment, Second Cohort, , Hancock Co., IL, 17 or 19 Mar. 1841; handwriting of and unidentified scribe; signatures of , , and Horace Fish; witnessed by ; docket in handwriting of ; two pages; Newel K. Whitney, Papers, BYU. Includes archival notations.
This document consists of three leaves. The first two leaves are presented here as a single page based on the continuation of handwriting and column lines. The third leaf is presented as a separate page and repeats information found on the bottom leaf of the first page. There are no clear indicators that any of the three leaves were physically attached, but the second and third leaves feature similar wear patterns and water damage that suggest they were stored together.
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A nearly perfect circle on the verso of the second leaf and a matching circle on the recto of the third leaf may indicate there was an adhesive wafer holding these two leaves together.
A poll Book of an Election held at the house of Horris fish [Horace Fish] in the County of in the second company the first Battallion the second regment of the second Cohort of the on the 19th. day of March A.D. 1841
| Capt | Capt | 1 Lieut Hiram Coil | 1 Lieut Joseph Smith Jun | 2 Lieut Thomas J Shear | 2 Lieut | 3 Lieut John Tibbett | |
| John Huntsman | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Harrison saver | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nathan Butler | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Rufus Savage. Jun, | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Nathan Biddlecum | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Daniel C Ames | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Hiram Coil | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| Thomas J Shearer | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| Horris Fish | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | |||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 1 | 1 | 1 | 1 | ||||
| 20 | 1 | 17 | 3 | 18 | 3 | 20 |
At an Election held at the house of Horris Fish in the County of in the on the 17 th. day o of march A D 1841 the following mamed [named] persons receivd the number of votes anext to their names from the following described officers to wit.
had 20 votes for Capt.
had 1 vote for Capt
Hiram Coil had 17 votes for 1st Lieut
Joseph Smith had 3 votes for 1st. Lieut
Thomas Shearer had 18 votes for 2nd. Lieut
had 3 votes for 2nd. Lieut
John Tibbett had 20 votes for 3rd. Lieut
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| ) | Judges of Election |
| ) | |
| Horace Fish) |
Atest
Clerk of Election) [p. [1]]
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Ebenezer Wiggins handwriting begins.
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TEXT: The date provided on the other two leaves of the document, including the bottom leaf of this page, is 17 March 1841. The reason for this discrepancy is unknown.
Signatures of James Daley, Rufus Abbott, and Horace Fish.
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