Petition of Matthew Mayhew

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481275">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481275</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1828-01-21 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Matthew Mayhew</li><li>William Davis</li><li>George Athearn</li><li>Cornelius Marchant</li><li>Timothy Coffin Jr.</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 8.0 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 8.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: undersigned </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Jeremiah Pease, Chappaquiddick, Dukes county, office of guardian, appointment, [includes notes next to signatures, political position or employment of each signer] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828 </p>