Petition of Thaddeus Cook

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208696 Date of creation: 1809-05-14 Petition location: Chappaquiddick Selected signatures:Thaddeus CookJaen SandrsSamuel PetersJesse WeepquishSarah WeepquashNaby LatonThomas LatonHannah PorridgSela JonsonPhilip GutridgPeggy PetersClara JohnsonCharlott MattasonPooly CookElizabeth CarterSarah CordnerJoseph Simson Total signatures: 31.0 Females of color signatures: 17 Males of color signatures: 11 Unidentified signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and other people of coluer inhabiting the island of Chappaquidick in the county of Dukes County for, and in behalf of themselves, and the coulred people of the said island, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick 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. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: special law, acts, tenants in common, patentees, purchasers, fences, appointment, trustees, neglect, not performed their trust, damage, cattle, sheep, creatures, animals, corn, pasturage, lands, impounded, compensation, hired or rented out, wood land, perambulate, survey, [Jean Sanders, Jane Saunders?], Jethro Worth, Martin Pease, Jonson Peters, Johnson Peters, George Jonson, George Johnson, Isaiah Jonson, Isaiah Johnson, Joseph Simson, house, law suit, swine, boat, family, sea, debts, support, William Jonson, William Johnson, Fereley Boes, Wattham Wayem, daughter, Charlotte Matteson, William Matteson, poor, Elizabeth Carter, clearing, improvements, Peter Beland, [Peter Belain?], removal, Jethro Daggett, Thadeis Cook, Thaddeus Cook, Benjamin Smith Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1809, c.70, passed February 27, 1810