Petition of Benjamin Allen

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208739 Date of creation: 1830-05-21 Petition location: Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on claims Selected signatures:Benjamin Allen Actions taken on dates: 1830-06-01,1830-06-01 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 1, 1830 and committed to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 1, 1830 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, committed, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: Nathan Francis, Hannah Francis, purchase, sale, lands, Christiantown, Christian Town, Martha's Vineyard, holden in her right and lying in common with others, deeds, marriage, Gay Head, Gayhead, profits, 1816, 1829, improvement, divisions, law, boundaries, appointments Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1831, Docket 9108