Petition of Pero Sharper

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448025">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448025</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1812-10-05 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Pero Sharper</li><li>Bersheba Sharper</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1813-02-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 9, 1813 and read and committed </p> <p>Total signatures: 2.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a coulored man of the town of Edgartown in the county of Dukes county, the wife of the said Pero, Indian woman, and daughter of Robert Setom late of said Edgartown Indian man late deceased, [males of color], [females of color] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </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: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Robert Setom, Farm Neck, Lagoone Pond, Benjamin Smith, lands, sale, lagoon, water, debts, fences, labor, lameness, Ebenezer Smith, Elihu Marchant </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1812, c.120, passed February 16, 1813 </p>