Petition of Barnard C. Marchant

Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448059 Date of creation: 1855-12-31 Petition location: Chappaquiddick Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Vinson, Edgartown; committee on education Selected signatures:Barnard C. MarchantIsaiah BelainZadock SimpsonDavid BelainDaniel T. Webquish Actions taken on dates: 1856-01-10,1856-01-11 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 10, 1856 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 11, 1856 and concurred Total signatures: 5.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 5.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color on the Island of Chappequiddic, guardian, [males of color], ["guardian of the Chappaquidic Indians"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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, Indian guardians, money, state treasury, support of schools, barely sufficient to employ a female teacher three months, or thereabouts, for very low wages, anxious, children, priviledge of a longer term of school, grant, six months Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1856, c.28, passed April 15, 1856