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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455092

Date of creation: 1847-02-20

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ezekiel Sawin, Bristol; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Leavitt Thaxter

Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-20,1847-02-20

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 20, 1847 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 20, 1847 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: guardian of the Indians and people of colour resident at Christiantown, ["guardian of the Christiantown Indians"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Charles W. James, New England Blind Asylum, New England Asylum for the Blind, whaling voyage, Christiantown, Christian town, Indian guardians

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1847, c.24, passed March 20, 1847

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.