Source and locator: University of Nebraska–Lincoln; archival source: UCLA Library Special Collections, Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company records, Collection 1434, Box 41.
Inspection and evidence boundary: Text inspected. Names Biddy, Ellen, Ann and Harriet alongside Hannah and her children/grandchild, fourteen people in total. Order dated January 19; later entry January 21; copy certified January 9, 1860. Published text has an inconsistent later-hearing date and spelling variations. Original manuscript not independently inspected. The court record does not establish that Mason personally drafted or filed the petition.