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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455206

Date of creation: 1855-01-12

Petition location: Gayhead

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ivory H. Lucas, Nantucket and Dukes County; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Zaccheus Howwoswee
2. Samuel Peters

Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-26,1855-01-27

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 26, 1855 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 27, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 2

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

Males of color signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: overseers of Gay Head, [males of color], ["overseers of the Gay Head Indians"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Clara Shepherd, Gay Head, Gayhead, Willard Shepherd, crazy, lunatic, mad, confined

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.17, passed March 14, 1855

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.