Petition of Isaac Easton

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448932 Date of creation: 1852-05-05 Petition location: Deep Bottom, Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Kinniston, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Isaac EastonJemima EastonIsaac Joab [by Ann Joab]Priscilla Jackson Actions taken on dates: 1853-02-03 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 3, 1853 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 5.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Females of color signatures: 2.0 Males of color signatures: 2.0 Unidentified signatures: 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: natives of and residents at Deep Bottom in the town of Tisbury in Dukes county, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians and people of colour at Deep Bottom"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Deep Bottom 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: lands, fathers, undivided and cannot be improved, improvement, wood, appropriation, appointment, commissioners, boundaries, divisions, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, [Includes correspondence of Jeremiah Pease transmitting petition to Samuel Keniston; testimony of Jemima Easton of Tisbury discussing Deep Bottom, her mother Abiah Joab, grandmother Mary Keaughma, great grandfather (Isaac Petumfuon?) at Deep Bottom Brook, Woody Bottom or Willow tree Bottom, Old town Road, Tississu Hill, Indian burial ground, Daniel Fellows; and certificates of Lucy Athearn and Thomas Cooke], [John Saunders, John Sanders] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1853, Docket 3574