Petition of Isaiah Belain

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231537">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231537</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1840-03-09 </p> <p>Petition location: Chappequiddic [Edgartown] </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Davis, Edgartown; committee on the reduction of salaries </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Isaiah Belain</li><li>Abraham Brown</li><li>Lawrence Prince</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1840-03-12 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 12, 1840 and referred to the committee on the reduction of salaries </p> <p>Total signatures: 3.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour resident at Chappequiddic in the county of Dukes County, overseers, constable, for the Indians aforesaid </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>Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick </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: Chappaquiddick, instruction, education, schools, knowledge, kind and fatherly care, proposition, white neighbors, guardianship abolish, remonstrate, remonstrance, petitioning, young men, whale fishery, voyages </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1840, Docket 746 </p>