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Petition subject: Education funds

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448096

Date of creation: 1868-01

Petition location: Gayhead

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Bradley, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions

Selected signatures:

1. Thomas Jeffers
2. Zaccheus Howwoswee
3. Charles H. Mingo

Actions taken on dates: 1868-02-05,1868-02-06

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 5, 1868 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 6, 1868 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: Indians and people of color, inhabitants of Gay Head in the county of Dukes, chairman of selectmen, [males of color], ["Indians of Gay Head"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Dukes county, resolve, 1867, schools, continue sum, destitute, children, further sum, purchase of school books

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1868, c.56, passed June 6, 1868

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.