Petition of Zadock Simpson

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208721 Date of creation: 1845-10-27 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George N. Briggs, Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, Boston Selected signatures:Zadock Simpson Total signatures: 1.0 Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: the Indians and people of colour on the island of Chappequiddick and at Christiantown, for and in behalf of myself and Isaiah Belain, Nelly Joseph, Fereby Harris, Peggy Peters and others, Indians and people of colour inhabitants of the island of Chappequiddick, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript 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: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, difficulties and grievances, remedy, promoting the right and suppressing the wrong, cause of the evils existing among us, supervision, opposite effect, no interest in our welfare, detrimental, removal, appointment, division line fence, fences, boundaries, dilapidated, destroyed, complaints Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Governor Council Files, March 10, 1846