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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448056

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; joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians

Selected signatures:

1. Zacheus Howwoswee
2. Samuel Peters
3. Aaron Cooper

Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-24,1855-01-25

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 24, 1855 and referred to the joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 25, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Males of color signatures: 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: on behalf of the Indians and people of colour resident at Gay Head in the county of Dukes county, overseers of Gay Head, [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Gayhead, boundary line, boundaries, divisions, Chilmark, never been recorded, description lost or secreted, disputes, encroachment, claimed, occupied, lands, recover and secure our rights, commissioners, appointment, determine and run

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.15, passed March 9, 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.