Petition of Zaccheus Howwoswee

Petition subject: Temperance Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448107 Date of creation: 1838-02-10 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John W. Brown, Lynn; several names from a committee Selected signatures:Zaccheus HowwosweeSimon JohnsonMichael MadisonHebron WamsleyAmos JeffersJohnson PetersTristram WeeksHenry PetersJohn SalisburyCoombs CooperAaron CooperThomas JeffersThomas CooperAlexander BrownWilliam WeeksJeremiah WeeksJames JaredAbraham JaredJoel JaredPatrick DivineWilliam MingoJoanna MingoPatience MingoEsther HowwosweeAmy Wamsley[Abiah Salisbury?]Parnal DevineEliza LewisHuldah BassettDorcas PetersLucy PetersDiadama MadisonAbiah ManningsSusan CooperPhebe CooperMary Weeks[Priscilla Rowse?]Elizabeth HowwosweeJane FrancisLouiza DavidSarah JeffersJane CooperMary JamesSophia BelainLucinda CooperMary PetersHannah PetersPatience GershomAdaline SalisburyJane WamsleyHarriet WamsleyJulia JeffersOlive MingoLydia JeffersBetsy Peters[Josiah Jared?]Eleanor Peters Actions taken on dates: 1838-02-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 19, 1838 and referred to a committee Total signatures: 57.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Females of color signatures: 36.0 Males of color signatures: 21.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour of Gayhead in Dukes County, [males of color], [females of color], [\"Indians of Gayhead\"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: column separated Native American tribe: Gayhead 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: Gayhead, Gay head, ardent spirits, alcohol, liquor, untimely end, poverty, drunkness, dissolute habits, paupers, support, prevent, sale, inhabitants, nonresidents, laws, search on suspicion, vote, meeting Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1838, c.101, passed April 12, 1838