Petition of Samuel Peters

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208703 Date of creation: 1807-05-18 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Samuel PetersSimon PorrdgeJoseph SimpsonThaddeus CookFrances PetersBetsy CarterWilliam Johnson Total signatures: 15.0 Females of color signatures: 2 Males of color signatures: 12 Unidentified signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian natives and people of colour dwelling on the Island of Chappequidick in the county of Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick 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: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, wood, committee, Boston, pasture, sheep, cattle, herbage, soil, jail, imprisonment, Thomas Cook, Captain Valentine Pease Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, [May 18, 1807]