Petition of Thomas Cooper

Petition subject: Indian resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448942 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Richard L. Pease, Edgartown; committee on agriculture Selected signatures:Thomas CooperZaccheus HowwosweeAaron CooperHebron WamsleyAmos JeffersMichael MadisonJohnson PetersJohn DivineHenry PetersLeander BassettHenry JamesSimon JohnsonJohn SalisburyJoel JaredGeorge Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1842-02-15,1842-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1842 and referred to the committee on agriculture and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1842 and concurred Total signatures: 17.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 17.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: people of colour inhabitants of Gayhead in Massachusetts and decendants of the Aborigines of this place, [males of color], ["Gay Head tribe of Indians"] 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: cranberries, owners of lands, proceeds, indigent, women, children, gather, staple means of support, winter, paupers, thoughtless white neighbors, depredations, hiring a watch kept while the berries were a ripening, fines Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11159