Petition of John Chamberlin

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12233041 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Abington Selected signatures:John ChamberlinMay P. ChamberlinSpencer ViningSamuel NortonTheodore SmithNathaniel NashMary CushingZiba TorreySally CleverlyDavid PoolSamuel N. BrownFreeman Howland Total signatures: 49.0 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 34 Female signatures: 9 Unidentified signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: undersigned, [females] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Troy/Fall River 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: Zerviah Gould Mitchell, granddaughter of Lydia Squin, daughter of Phebe Gould, great granddaughter of Benjamin Squmnamay, Benjamin Squamnaway, real Indians Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, February 5, 1857, Case of Zerviah Gould Mitchell