Petition of Thomas Jeffers

Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448087 Date of creation: 1865-02-28 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Samuel Osborn Jr., Edgartown; committee on education Selected signatures:Thomas JeffersGeorge BelainGeorge CooperAaron CooperZaccheus CooperSamuel PetersJesse PetersAbraham RodmanIsaac D. RoseZaccheus Howwoswee Actions taken on dates: 1865-03-02,1865-03-03 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 Total signatures: 10.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 10.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, inhabitants of Gay Head in the county of Dukes, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Gayhead 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: Dukes county, resolve, 1864, schools, grant and continue sum Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1865, c.32, passed April 8, 1865