Petition of Simon Porridge

Petition subject: Rights, liberties, and resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:10935264 Date of creation: 1796-01-12 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Simon PorridgeHezekiah JoelSamuel PetersFrances Peters Legislative action: To lie Total signatures: 12.0 Legislative action summary: To lie Males of color signatures: 12.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian natives, other black inhabitants of the Island Chapaquiddock in the county of Dukes County, [males 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 natives and their guardians, Joseph Huxford and Cornelius Huxford, Indian guardians, Dukes county, lands, fences, boundaries, creatures, animals, trespass, white people, grains, grass, oppressed Africans, freedom, emancipation, asylum, natives of the land, civil liberty, rights of men, constitution, taxation, agent, black inhabitants, patentees, purchasers Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1796, Docket 4395