Petition of Valentine Pease

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448939">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448939</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1823-05-27 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Valentine Pease</li><li>Daniel Smith</li><li>Henry Pease</li><li>Timothy Coffin</li><li>Benjamin Smith</li><li>Abner Fisher</li><li>Samuel Cleveland</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1823-06-03,1823-06-04,1824-01-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on June 3, 1823 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on June 4, 1823 and read and concurred and leave to withdraw on January 16, 1824 </p> <p>Total signatures: 27.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, leave to withdraw </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 27.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: proprietors of the tracts of land lying on the Island of Chabaquiddick </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>Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick </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> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, lands, Dukes county, 1789, shares in common, undivided, common and general fields, fences, divisions, 1796, patentees, purchasers, woodland, cattle, damages, trespass </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1824, Docket 7134 </p>