Petition of George Johnson

Petition subject: Indian guardians Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208736 Date of creation: 1799-06-14 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:George JohnsonLewis CookSimon PorridgeSamuel PetersJoseph SimpsonEsther JohnsonJane DimondWilliam Mattisson Actions taken on dates: 1799-06-14 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 14, 1799 and report leave to withdraw Total signatures: 10.0 Legislative action summary: Received, report leave to withdraw Females of color signatures: 4 Males of color signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indian natives of the Island Chapequiddick in the County of Dukes County and other black people inhabiting said Island, [males of color], [females of color], ["Chappaquiddick Indians"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Signatory column format: not column separated 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: no additional documents Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, patentees, purchasers, lands, fences, divisions, boundaries, creatures, animals, trespass, damage, impounded, compensation, families, tenants in common, settlement, sea, encroachment Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1799, Docket 2532