Petition of Hannah Porridge

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208737 Date of creation: 1810-05-24 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Hannah PorridgeBetsy CarterLewis CookSamuel PetersIsaiah JohnsonThomas LatonEbenezer CurdoBetsy CurdoodyHannah JoelJane SaundersSally WebquishSally BelandLucy WiempJoseph Warren Actions taken on dates: 1810-06-05,1810-06-09 Legislative action: Received in the senate on June 5, 1810 and committed and report leave to withdraw on June 9, 1810 Total signatures: 44.0 Legislative action summary: Received, committed, report leave to withdraw Females of color signatures: 18 Males of color signatures: 24 Unidentified signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian natives and people of colour inhabitants of the Island of Chappequidick in the County of Dukes County, [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: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, assignment of the lands, commissioners, boundaries, improvement, laws, families, cows, cattle, oxen, plow, wood, expenses, fences, funds, grazing, creatures, animals, meadows, swamps, peat, sticks, fuel, [\"…and must become chargeable to the publick or sold as bondmen, women and children…\"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1810, Docket 4093