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Petition subject: Indian guardians

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208707

Date of creation: 1824-01-14

Petition location: Edgartown

Selected signatures:

1. Samuel Peters
2. William Johnson
3. Betsy Carter
4. Lucy Brown
5. Joseph Simpson
6. Jane Saunders
7. Jane Gold
8. Sally Webquish
9. Mary Cook

Total signatures: 14

Females of color signatures: 11

Males of color signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour, inhabitants of the Island of Chapquidick in the town of edgartown county of Dukes County, [males of color], [females 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: Chappaquiddick, wood, committee, Boston, pasture, sheep, cattle, herbage, soil, jail, imprisonment, Thomas Cook, Captain Valentine Pease

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, February 12, 1824

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.