Petition of Simon Mayhew

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208698 Date of creation: 1813-05-18 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Simon MayhewNathaniel MayhewWilliam Mayhew Legislative action: Committed and note on third reading Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Committed, read Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: overseers and guardians of the Indian, Molatto and Negro proprietors of Gayhead on Martha's Vineyard 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: Gay head, improvement, lands, pasturage, rights, cattle, poor, property, payments, rent, powers of collectors of taxes, taxation Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1813, c.66, passed June 16, 1813