Petition of Isaiah Johnson

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231226 Date of creation: 1809-05-22 Petition location: Chappaquiddick Selected signatures:Isaiah JohnsonAsa JohnsonGeorge Johnson Jr.Betsy JohnsonJames WimpeJoseph WarrenIsaiah BlanThiah MosesEbenezer Curdudy Total signatures: 19.0 Females of color signatures: 5 Males of color signatures: 13 Unidentified signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian natives and people of colour, being tenants in common in the Indian lands on the island of Chapequidick in the county of Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick 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: Jethro Worth, Martin Pease, George Johnson, Edgartown, certification from Indian guardians, lands, acts, laws, families, women, improvements, divisions, govern, regulate Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1809, c.70, passed February 27, 1810