Petition of Joel Rogers

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448029 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on accounts Selected signatures:Joel RogersThomas CooperThaddeus CookIsaiah HowwosweJoseph BatesMatthew GershamAndrew JohnsonJonathan CuffeHebron Wamsley Actions taken on dates: 1821-01-26,1821-01-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1821 and read and committed to the committee on accounts and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1821 and read and concurred Total signatures: 12.0 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Males of color signatures: 12.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: proprietors of Gayhead, [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: Joseph De Grasse, Joseph Degrasse, Gayhead, Gay Head, Portuguese, Matthew Mayhew, winter, state poor, Chilmark, payments Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1820, c.46, passed February 14, 1821