Petition of Barnard C. Marchant

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481314 Date of creation: 1869-02-02 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Bradley, Tisbury; committee on Indian affairs Selected signatures:Barnard C. Marchant Actions taken on dates: 1869-02-04,1869-02-05 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 4, 1869 and referred to the committee on Indian affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 5, 1869 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: guardian of the Indians and people of color resident at Chappaquiddick and Christiantown in Dukes county Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: Asa Peters, Indian guardians, sick, two motherless children, three orphan children under the age of eight years, one dependent upon the aid from the state, schools, sum Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1869, c.79, passed June 12, 1869