Petition of Simon Johnson

Petition subject: Indian resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448110 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Smith Mayhew, Chilmark; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Simon JohnsonAmos JeffersAaron CooperFrancis MingoAsa WainerSamuel PetersJohannes SalisburyMichael MadisonJames JeffreyIsaac RoseHebron WamsleyTristram WeeksZaccheus HowwosweeLewis CookAbel ManningJosiah JerrodLeonard JeffersAlexander BrownWilliam VanderhoopJohn WilliamsGeorge DavidParnal DivineJane FrancisClarissa ShepherdMary WainerLucy CooperMary PetersHannah CuffSarah JohnsonEleanora SylviaDiadama MadisonSophia BelainHuldah BassettHarriet RosePatience ColePatience GershomElizabeth HowwosweeCharlotte RodmanEsther HowwosweeAnn NeversAbiah CookBethiah JeffersBeulah VanderhoopBetsy PetersSophronia WilliamsLouisa DavidElizabeth MorsRemember CooperHannah Devine Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 27, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 78.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Females of color signatures: 46.0 Males of color signatures: 32.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: people of color and proprietors of Gay Head, [males of color], [females of color], ["proprietors of Gayhead"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: column separated Native American tribe: Gayhead 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: Cranberries, cranberry, Gayhead, lands, owners, people having no right whatever gathering, gather before sufficiently ripe, justice, fines, imprisonment, penalty, descedants of the aborigines, law Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.202, passed March 25, 1845