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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448938

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Christiantown

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Jernegan, Edgartown

Selected signatures:

1. George Peters
2. Thomas James
3. Judith James

Actions taken on dates: 1824-01-16,1824-01-17

Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1824 and read and committed to the committee on the petition of Mercy Popena and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1824 and read and concurred

Total signatures: 9

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

Females of color signatures: 4

Males of color signatures: 5

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: natives of Christian Town in the town of Tisbury, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians"]

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: Sarah Francis, sale, lands, John Saunders, Deep Bottom, certification, Joseph Thaxter, Frederick Baylies

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1824, Docket 7133

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.