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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455134

Date of creation: 1831-12-31

Petition location: Edgartown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Leavitt Thaxter, Edgartown; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Daniel Fellows Jr.
2. Peter Belain
3. Abraham Brown

Actions taken on dates: 1832-01-11,1832-01-12

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 11, 1832 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 12, 1832 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: guardian, overseers, [males of color], ["guardian & overseers of Chappequiddic Indians"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, Polly Madison, Betsy Madison, Betsy Carrol, New Bedford, Indian guardians, Dukes County, helpless

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1832, c.9, passed January 28, 1832

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.