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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481276

Date of creation: 1827-05-22

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Peters
2. Elizabeth Johnson
3. Jane Saunders
4. Betsy Carter
5. Jane Sams
6. Sally Wepquish
7. Lawrence Prince
8. Isaac Prince
9. Eliakim Jonas
10. Clarissa Jonas
11. Abraham Brown
12. Lucy Brown
13. Peter Belain
14. Sally Belain
15. Emmanuel Joseph

Total signatures: 15

Females of color signatures: 7

Males of color signatures: 8

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour, residents in the county of Dukes County, [females of color], [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Daniel Fellows Jr., Chappaquiddick, appointment, bill, regulation, government, law of the land

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828

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.