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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455101

Date of creation: 1868-01-28

Petition location: Edgartown

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

Selected signatures:

1. Barnard C. Marchant

Actions taken on dates: 1868-01-31,1868-02-03

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1868 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 3, 1868 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 Christiantown and Chappequiddic tribes of Indians in Dukes County, ["guardian of the Christiantown & Chappequiddic Indians in Dukes County"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Indian guardians, Christiantown Indians, Christian town, Chappaquiddick, Asa Peters, three children, three orphan children, schools

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1868, c.32, passed May 4, 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.