Petition of Zaccheus Howwoswee

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448954 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Kinniston, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary; committee on towns Selected signatures:Zaccheus HowwosweeSamuel PetersAaron Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1853-01-16,1854-03-02,1854-03-03 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1853 and referred to committee on the judiciary and received in the House on March 2, 1854 and taken from files of last year and referred to the committee on towns and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 3, 1854 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, taken from files, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: on behalf of the Indians and people of colour resident at Gay Head, overseers of Gay Head, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Gayhead 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: Chilmark, Dukes county, boudnaries, records, disputes, encroachment, lands, neither the disposition or the ability to go to law for our rights, appointment, commissioners Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1854, Docket 14074