Petition of Zaccheus Howwoswee

Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448080 Date of creation: 1864-02-05 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Sturtevant, Tisbury; committee on education Selected signatures:Zaccheus HowwosweeSimon JohnsonAbraham RodmanHebron WamsleyThomas JeffersTristram WeeksIsaac D. Rose Actions taken on dates: 1864-02-24,1864-02-25 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 24, 1864 and referred to the committee on education and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 25, 1864 and concurred Total signatures: 7.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 7.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, inhabitants of Gay Head, in Dukes county, [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: schools, grant and continue sum Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1864, c.39, passed March 26, 1864