Unpassed Legislation Relating to Indian Affairs; Senate Unpassed Legislation 1850, Docket 13034, SC1/series 592x, Petition of Benjamin Allen

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208743">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208743</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1850-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Benjamin Allen</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1850-02-21,1850-02-21 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 21, 1850 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 21, 1850 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: John Cattle, Edmund Cattle, appointment, Christiantown, office, defended them in two lawsuits which arose in consequence of negro men marrying native women amongst them, debts, aged and sick, services, leave to withdraw, application, payments, money </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1850, Docket 13034 </p> <p>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.</p>