Petition of Augustus Casey

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448124 Date of creation: 1843-01-18 Petition location: Carver Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Francis Adams, Boston; committee on probate and chancery Selected signatures:Augustus CaseyWilliam H. AllenThomas Smith Actions taken on dates: 1843-01-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1843 and referred to the committee on probate and chancery Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Males of color signatures: 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: only surviving heirs of Luana Sepit late of Carver in the county of Plymouth, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Herring Pond 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: South Carolina, Luana Seipet, Luana Seepit, Luana Sepit, Luana Cepit, Plymouth, resolve, 1839, selectmen, act, 1835, Indian guardians, sale, lands, improperly and needlessly sacrificed, relief and remedy, includes statement of support for Augustus Casey and petition, Elijah Willis, Allen Dexter, Nathaniel Hammond, Samuel Sturtevant, Joshua Cushing, James Snow, Moses Rogers, Francis Howard, Darius Eldredge, and others Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1846, Docket 1703