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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448101

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Tisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Solomon Weeks
2. Judy Garshom
3. Solomon Jeffery
4. Love Jeffery
5. George Peters
6. Anna Peters
7. Happy Amos
8. Hosea Francis
9. Sarah Francis
10. Joseph Taknish
11. Anna Lot

Actions taken on dates: 1805-01-26,1805-01-28

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1805 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 28, 1805 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 11

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

Females of color signatures: 3

Males of color signatures: 6

Unidentified signatures: 2

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of that part of the town of Tisbury known by the name of Christian Town in Dukes county, [females of color], [males of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

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

Additional archivist notes: Christiantown, lands, encroachment, original inhabitants, long voyages, sea, whaling, in a more soft manner that of kidnapping, debts, wives, children, support, families, Revolutionary War, David Capeyan, common, will, heirs, John Arucoche, Gayhead, Gay head, daughter, songs, hired out, destruction of young wood, strangers, no right, law, settlement, Chappaquiddick, selectmen, attest, Ezekiel Luce, Thomas Dunham

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1804, c.84, passed March 8, 1805

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.