Passed Resolves; Resolves 1865, c.32, SC1/series 228, Petition of Thomas Jeffers

<p>Petition subject: Education funds </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448087">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448087</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1865-02-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Gayhead </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Osborn Jr., Edgartown; committee on education </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Thomas Jeffers</li><li>George Belain</li><li>George Cooper</li><li>Aaron Cooper</li><li>Zaccheus Cooper</li><li>Samuel Peters</li><li>Jesse Peters</li><li>Abraham Rodman</li><li>Isaac D. Rose</li><li>Zaccheus Howwoswee</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1865-03-02,1865-03-03 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 2, 1865 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 3, 1865 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 10 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 10 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, inhabitants of Gay Head in the county of Dukes, [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: Dukes county, resolve, 1864, schools, grant and continue sum </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1865, c.32, passed April 8, 1865 </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>