Petition of George Peters

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906085 Date of creation: 1823-12-25 Petition location: Christiantown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee Selected signatures:George PetersLouisa PetersWilliam MingoOlive MingoSolomon WeeksJudith JamesEliza WeeksBenjamin DexterJohn Holmes Actions taken on dates: 1824-01-09,1824-01-10 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 9, 1824 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 10, 1824 and read and concurred Total signatures: 23 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 6 Females of color signatures: 8 Males of color signatures: 9 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: natives and inhabitants of the town of Christiantown on Martha's Vineyard, colored people's names, white people's names, selectmen of Tisbury, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Christiantown 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: Mercy Popenna, Mashpee, Barnstable, Hannah Pocknett, Bathsheba Wickett, Plymouth, lands, joint tenants in common, Samuel Hannet, Hannah Capa, Betty Anchooch, sale, law suit, supreme court Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1824, Docket 9419