Petition of Valentine Pease

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481278">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481278</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1829-01-09 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the petition of Cornelius Huxford </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Valentine Pease</li><li>John Osborn</li><li>Benjamin Pease</li><li>John Coffin</li><li>William Brown</li><li>William King</li><li>Joseph Ripley</li><li>Daniel Fisher</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1829-01-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1829 and committed to the committee on the petition of Cornelius Huxford </p> <p>Total signatures: 25.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, committed </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 25.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: proprietors of land on the island of Chappequiddick in Dukes County, proprietors adjoining the Indian line fence on said island </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, remonstrate, Cornelius Huxford, not be granted, committee, order, attested copy, fences, proprietors, lands, remote, notification, officer, returns, sheriff, hearing, cattle, "reverse is the fact," repair, expenses, intrusion, not a proprietor, no person in Dukes County by the name of John Huxford Jr., petitioning, Indian guardians, 1787, patentees, purchasers, shares, in common and undivided, common and general fields, 1790, act, clerk, meeting, 1796, enclosed, improvement, wood land, boundaries, litigation, disputes, trespass, soil </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1828, c.109, passed March 2, 1829 </p>