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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455098

Date of creation: 1833-12-27

Petition location: Edgartown

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

Selected signatures:

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

Actions taken on dates: 1834-01-08,1834-01-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 8, 1834 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 9, 1834 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 and overseers of the Indians and people of colour resident at Chappequiddic in Dukes County, guardian, overseers, [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: Chappaquiddick, Polly Madison, Betsy Madison, Betsy Carrol, New Bedford, Indian guardians, helpless, clothing, medical attendance, benevolent and fostering hand, disabilities

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1834, c.9, passed February 4, 1834

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.