Passed Resolves; Resolves 1853, c.33, SC1/series 228, Petition of Zaccheus Howwoswee

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455207">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455207</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: [Gayhead?] </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Kinniston, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Zaccheus Howwoswee</li><li>Samuel Peters</li><li>Aaron Cooper</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1853-02-16,1853-03-04,1853-03-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 16, 1853 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on March 4, 1853 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 9, 1853 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 3 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: overseers of the poor at Gay Head, overseers of Gay Head, [males of color] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Clara Shepherd, Gay Head, Gayhead, Willard Shepherd, absent, crazy, lunatic, mad, dangerous, peace, safety, confined, daughter, public lands, Lunatic Hospital, Worcester </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1853, c.33, passed April 8, 1853 </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>