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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208733

Date of creation: 1840-02-29

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Elihu P. Norton, Edgartown; committee on the reduction of salaries

Selected signatures:

1. Freeman Sanders
2. Chase Pease
3. William Vinson
4. Hebron Vincent
5. Seth Cleveland
6. Henry Marchant Jr.
7. John Norton
8. Kilborn Smith
9. Edgar Baylies
10. Ellis Lewis

Actions taken on dates: 1840-03-07

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 7, 1840 and referred to the committee on the reduction of salaries

Total signatures: 16

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 16

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: ["others"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: investigation, Indian guardianship, Dukes county, abolish, unjust, anti-republican system, circumscribing the natural and inalienable rights of its subjects

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 746

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.