Passed Acts; St. 1827, c.114, SC1/series 229, Petition of Samuel Peters

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481276 Date of creation: 1827-05-22 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Samuel PetersElizabeth JohnsonJane SaundersBetsy CarterJane SamsSally WepquishLawrence PrinceIsaac PrinceEliakim JonasClarissa JonasAbraham BrownLucy BrownPeter BelainSally BelainEmmanuel Joseph Total signatures: 15 Females of color signatures: 7 Males of color signatures: 8 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour, residents in the county of Dukes County, [females of color], [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Daniel Fellows Jr., Chappaquiddick, appointment, bill, regulation, government, law of the land Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828 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.