Petition of Recall Degrass

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448937 Date of creation: 1823-05-23 Petition location: Christiantown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on new trials Selected signatures:Recall Degrass Actions taken on dates: 1823-05-31,1823-06-02 Legislative action: Received in the House on May 31, 1823 and read and committed to the committee on new trials and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 2, 1823 and read and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Christiantown 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: [folder includes testimonies, depositions, correspondence, including details on sickness, treatment, death, and burial of Jane; William Davis, Matthew Merry, Tisbury, Recall De Grass, Christiantown Indians, Christian town, Samuel Hannett, Jane Hannett, Jane Brown, Josiah Henderson, Joseph Luce, Sally Luce, Judith James, Thomas James, Anna Peters, Hepzibah Peters, Frederick Baylies, Samuel Brown, Gay Head, Gayhead, Benjamin Allen, Dukes county, debts, nursing, boarding, sickness, funeral expenses, coffin, doctor, lands, property, sale, accounts] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1824, Docket 7114