Petition of Samuel Huxford

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148851">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11148851</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1818-05-16 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on accounts </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Huxford</li><li>Daniel Coffin</li><li>Elijah Stewart</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1818-05-30,1818-06-03 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on May 30, 1818 and committed to the committee on accounts and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 3, 1818 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 3.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Overseers of the poor of the town of Edgartown </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: Chappaquiddick </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: no additional documents </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: James Peters, Dukes county, safe harbor, Vineyard Sound, sickness, vessels, poor and indigent, brigantine, Boston, 1817, frozen, feet have been taken off, amputation, expenses, attendance, bills, foreigner, allowance </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1818, Docket 5978 </p>