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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448038

Date of creation: 1838-12-22

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Bradley, Tisbury; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Leavitt Thaxter

Actions taken on dates: 1839-01-15,1839-01-15

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1839 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1839 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 at Chappequiddic and Christiantown

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Recall De Grass, Recall D. Grasse, Recall DeGrass, Recall DeGrasse, Chappaquiddick, Indian guardians, asthma, labor, lands, act 1828, rent, allowance

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1839, c.18, passed February 18, 1839

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.