Petition of John V. Conet

<p>Petition subject: Education funds </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448037">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448037</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1838-03 </p> <p>Petition location: Herring Pond plantation </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Marston, Barnstable; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John V. Conet</li><li>Solomon Bartlett</li><li>Roland Gardner</li><li>Ralph Blackwell</li><li>Thomas Fletcher</li><li>Antone Frances</li><li>[Clarissa Conet?]</li><li>Lydia Fowler</li><li>Martha Jackson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1838-03-29 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 29, 1838 and referred to the committee on education </p> <p>Total signatures: 12.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 3.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 9.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of the plantation of Herring Pond and Indians proprietors and people of colour, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry Herring Pond Indians"] </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: Herring Pond </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: school house, white people, deprived, education, useful citizens, old meeting house, repair, inconvenient place, winter, building, preaching, meetings, population number 51, children number 17, aid, Mashpee, Martha's Vineyard, includes notes next to signatures, non-p, non proprietor </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1838, c.64, passed April 17, 1838 </p>