Petition of Solomon Weeks

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:Solomon WeeksJudy GarshomSolomon JefferyLove JefferyGeorge PetersAnna PetersHappy AmosHosea FrancisSarah FrancisJoseph TaknishAnna 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: 11.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 3.0 Males of color signatures: 6.0 Unidentified signatures: 2.0 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 Native American tribe: Christiantown 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: 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