Petition of Marcy Cooke

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481277 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Chappaquiddick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nymphas Marston; committee who have the bills alluded to under consideration Selected signatures:Marcy CookeHannah SimpsonLewis SimpsonAbigail LattonOlive CookeThaddeus CookMarcy CookJohn DimondThomas Latton Jr.Jane LattonSimeon SimpsonWilliam Johnson Actions taken on dates: 1827-06-09,1827-06-09 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 9, 1827 and referred to committee who have the bills alluded to under consideration and sent down for concurrence and received in the House on June 9, 1827 and concurred Total signatures: 12.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 6.0 Males of color signatures: 6.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour living on the island of Chabaquidic within the town of Edgartown in the county of Dukes County and commonwealth of Massachusetts, [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] 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: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, regulation, instruction, government, disapprove, law, act, highly injurious to their rights liberties and interest, privileges, lands, division line, fences, pound, field drivers, appointment Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828