Petition of Cornelius Huxford

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448103 Date of creation: 1828-05-20 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Butler, Edgartown; several names from a committee Selected signatures:Cornelius HuxfordJoseph HuxfordJohn Huxford Jr.Thomas Huxford Actions taken on dates: 1828-06-05,1829-01-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on June 5, 1828 and committed and committed Total signatures: 4.0 Legislative action summary: Received, committed, committed Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 4.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants of the island of Chappaquiddick and proprietors of lands adjoining the Indian line fence on that island, [\"others\"] 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, cattle, fences, lands, committee, regulation, law, justice Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1828, c.109, passed March 2, 1829