Petition of George Peters

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448938 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Christiantown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William Jernegan, Edgartown Selected signatures:George PetersThomas JamesJudith James Actions taken on dates: 1824-01-16,1824-01-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 16, 1824 and read and committed to the committee on the petition of Mercy Popena and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 17, 1824 and read and concurred Total signatures: 9.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 4.0 Males of color signatures: 5.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: natives of Christian Town in the town of Tisbury, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Christiantown 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: Sarah Francis, sale, lands, John Saunders, Deep Bottom, certification, Joseph Thaxter, Frederick Baylies Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1824, Docket 7133