Council; Council Files March 10, 1846, GC3/series 378, Petition of Zadock Simpson

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208721">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208721</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1845-10-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George N. Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Zadock Simpson</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the Indians and people of colour on the island of Chappequiddick and at Christiantown, for and in behalf of myself and Isaiah Belain, Nelly Joseph, Fereby Harris, Peggy Peters and others, Indians and people of colour inhabitants of the island of Chappequiddick, [males of color] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, difficulties and grievances, remedy, promoting the right and suppressing the wrong, cause of the evils existing among us, supervision, opposite effect, no interest in our welfare, detrimental, removal, appointment, division line fence, fences, boundaries, dilapidated, destroyed, complaints </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, March 10, 1846 </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>