Petition of Leavitt Thaxter

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448052 Date of creation: 1851-03-07 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Sirson P. Coffin, Edgartown; committee on public expenditures; committee on claims Selected signatures:Leavitt ThaxterIsaiah BelainDaniel T. Webquish Actions taken on dates: 1851-03-14,1851-03-15,1851-03-17 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 14, 1851 and referred to the committee on public expenditures and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 15, 1851 and nonconcurred and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 17, 1851 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, nonconcurred, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: committee duly chosen by the Indians and people of color resident on the island of Chappequiddic in Dukes County to petition the Legislature for aid to enable them to build division fences, guardian, committee, [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, divisional lines, fences, boundaries, divisions, lands, materials, cattle, expenses, ropes, labor, tethering ropes, trespass, improvement, livelihood, Indian guardians, Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1851, c.68, passed May 20, 1851