Passed Resolves; Resolves 1868, c.32, SC1/series 228, Petition of Barnard C. Marchant

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455101">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455101</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1868-01-28 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Bradley, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Barnard C. Marchant</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1868-01-31,1868-02-03 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 31, 1868 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 3, 1868 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: guardian of the Christiantown and Chappequiddic tribes of Indians in Dukes County, ["guardian of the Christiantown & Chappequiddic Indians in Dukes County"] </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Indian guardians, Christiantown Indians, Christian town, Chappaquiddick, Asa Peters, three children, three orphan children, schools </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1868, c.32, passed May 4, 1868 </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>