Petition of Samuel Peters

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548433 Date of creation: 1781-06-08 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on the sale of lands Selected signatures:Samuel PetersMartha Peters Legislative action: Committed and leave to withdraw Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Committed, leave to withdraw Females of color signatures: 1 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: his wife, Indian Proprietors and Inhabitants of the Island of Chapequidduk in Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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 archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, debts, John Pease Jr., house, buildings, mortgage, sale, lands Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 187, page 162