Petition of Johnson Simpson

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906099">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906099</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1849-02-05 </p> <p>Petition location: Christiantown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Heman Arey, Edgartown; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Johnson Simpson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-13,1849-02-14 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 13, 1849 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 14, 1849 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: one of the Christiantown tribe of Indians in the county of Dukes county, [males of color] </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>Native American tribe: Christiantown </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> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: George Peters, father in law, 1847, stricken with the palsy, unable to move or take care of himself, took care of and supported, expenses, sum, remuneration, services, money </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1849, Docket 12814 </p>