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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448029

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Gayhead

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on accounts

Selected signatures:

1. Joel Rogers
2. Thomas Cooper
3. Thaddeus Cook
4. Isaiah Howwoswe
5. Joseph Bates
6. Matthew Gersham
7. Andrew Johnson
8. Jonathan Cuffe
9. Hebron Wamsley

Actions taken on dates: 1821-01-26,1821-01-27

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1821 and read and committed to the committee on accounts and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1821 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 12

Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred

Males of color signatures: 12

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: proprietors of Gayhead, [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: Joseph De Grasse, Joseph Degrasse, Gayhead, Gay Head, Portuguese, Matthew Mayhew, winter, state poor, Chilmark, payments

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1820, c.46, passed February 14, 1821

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.