Passed Acts; St. 1804, c.84, SC1/series 229, Petition of Solomon Weeks

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448101">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448101</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Solomon Weeks</li><li>Judy Garshom</li><li>Solomon Jeffery</li><li>Love Jeffery</li><li>George Peters</li><li>Anna Peters</li><li>Happy Amos</li><li>Hosea Francis</li><li>Sarah Francis</li><li>Joseph Taknish</li><li>Anna Lot</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1805-01-26,1805-01-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1805 and read and committed and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 28, 1805 and read and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 11 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 3 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 6 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 2 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian inhabitants of that part of the town of Tisbury known by the name of Christian Town in Dukes county, [females of color], [males of color] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Christiantown, lands, encroachment, original inhabitants, long voyages, sea, whaling, in a more soft manner that of kidnapping, debts, wives, children, support, families, Revolutionary War, David Capeyan, common, will, heirs, John Arucoche, Gayhead, Gay head, daughter, songs, hired out, destruction of young wood, strangers, no right, law, settlement, Chappaquiddick, selectmen, attest, Ezekiel Luce, Thomas Dunham </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1804, c.84, passed March 8, 1805 </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>