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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448946

Date of creation: 1845-12-29

Petition location: Tisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Stephen Skiff, Tisbury; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Benjamin Allen

Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-16,1846-01-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1846 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1846 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: one of the guardians of the Christian Town Indians

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: Christiantown, Edmund Cottle, son, John Cottle, Indian guardians, appointments, 1805, 1813, office, services, compensation, payments, health, application, many disputes among them owing to their females marrying negroes whom they did not wish to have any rights to their lands

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1846, Docket 11981

Acknowledgements: Supported by the National Endowment for the Humanities (PW-5105612), Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth, Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard University, Center for American Political Studies at Harvard University, Institutional Development Initiative at Harvard University, and Harvard University Library.