Petition of Samuel Peters

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448102">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448102</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1826-05-25 </p> <p>Petition location: Chappaquiddick </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel Fellows Jr., Edgartown; committee on probate and chancery </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel Peters</li><li>William Johnson</li><li>Betsy Carrel</li><li>Sally Webquish</li><li>Jane Saunders</li><li>Lucy Brown</li><li>Elizabeth Johnson</li><li>Martha Williams</li><li>Betsy Carter</li><li>Annis Williamson</li><li>Hannah Simpson</li><li>Betsy Nucom</li><li>Nelly Joseph</li><li>Abigail Luton</li><li>[Fereba Harris?]</li><li>Jane Sames</li><li>Sally Belain</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1826-06-05 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1826 </p> <p>Total signatures: 17.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 14.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 2.0 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Natives of Chappaquiddick, signers, heads of families, [males of color], [females of color], ["Indians on Chabaquidic"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </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: Chappaquiddick, lands, law, division, improvements, discouragement, fences, meadows, permanent division, property, descend, children, relations, sale, cattle, damage, Indian guardians, appointment, law suits, courts, judicial, foreigner, marriage, settlement, pound, pound keeper, confine, impound, [petitioning, lengthy period of time between petition's date and passage of law] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828 </p>