Petition of Margaret Peters

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448933 Date of creation: 1853-02-15 Petition location: Chappaquiddick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Kinniston, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Margaret PetersEleanor JosephHannah RossWilliam JohnsonMartha Johnson Actions taken on dates: 1853-03-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1853 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 6.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Females of color signatures: 5.0 Males of color signatures: 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: people of colour, inhabitants of the island of Chappequiddic, [males of color], [females of color], [\"inhabitants of the 'Island of Chappequidick'\"] 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: Daniel Fellows, Indian guardians, complaint, fences, subdivisions, boundaries, public highways, lands, roads, territory, cattle, sheep, tilling the soil, planted grounds, dilapidated, hiring pasture, cranberry swamp, cranberry bog, bushels, crop, cut off by water being let in upon it, loss, income, redress, relief, diggin peat, appointment, lone women with no friendly hand to assist us in our troubles, \"And we would here observe that those who have been the most favored are not natives of the soil, but full blooded Africans, while your petitioners are genuine descendants of the Aborigenes.\" Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1853, Docket 3576