Petition of Barnard C. Marchant

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481289 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Baylies Sanford, Taunton; committee on the judiciary; committee on claims Selected signatures:Barnard C. MarchantJeremiah PeaseJohn S. RobinsonKilborn SmithRalph CleavlandJohn NortonDaniel FellowsJared CoffinJohn VinsonJames CoombsJohn Luce Actions taken on dates: 1854-03-10,1855-01-16,1855-01-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 10, 1854 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and received in the House on January 16, 1855 and taken from the files and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 48.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 48.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: legal voters Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Deep Bottom 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: Jemima Easton, Deep Botom, [John Saunders, John Sanders] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.69, passed May 17, 1855