Petition of Thomas H. Lambert

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906091 Date of creation: 1863-01-31 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Sturtevant, Tisbury; judiciary committee Selected signatures:Thomas H. Lambert Actions taken on dates: 1863-02-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 6, 1863 and referred to the judiciary committee Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: County Commissioners of Dukes County, chairman of the County Commissioners of Dukes County Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick/Deepbottom/Christiantown/Aquinnah 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: costs of criminal prosecutions, Dukes County, John Milton Earle, report, Senate Document no.96, three hundred Indians and people of color, Chabbaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Gay Head, Gayhead, special and involuntary wards of the state, not citizens of either of the towns in Dukes County, neither are they included in the census taken decennially by order of Congress, class of people, books of the jailer, past eleven years eighty five per cent of the imprisonment for crime in the jail and house of correction are of people of color, prison Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1863, judiciary committee - leave to withdraw judiciary