Petition of Benjamin Davis

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906089 Date of creation: 1862-02 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edgar Marchant, Edgartown; committee on the judiciary Selected signatures:Benjamin Davis Actions taken on dates: 1862-02-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1862 and referred to the committee on the judiciary Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: County Commissioners of Dukes County, chairman of County Commissioners 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: criminal prosecutions, Dukes County, John Milton Earle, report, Senate document no.91, three hundred Indians and people of color, Chabbaquiddick, Chappaquiddick, Christiantown, Deep Bottom, Gay Head, Gayhead, special and involuntary wards of the state, not citizens of either of the towns in said Dukes County, neither are they included in the census taken decennially by order of congress, criminal prosecutions, class of people, books of the jailer, past ten years, eighty five per cent of the imprisonments for crime in the jail and house of correction are of people of color, prison, imprisonment, crime, costs Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1862, judiciary committee - leave to withdraw