Petition of Marcy Cooke

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481277">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13481277</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Chappaquiddick </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nymphas Marston; committee who have the bills alluded to under consideration </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Marcy Cooke</li><li>Hannah Simpson</li><li>Lewis Simpson</li><li>Abigail Latton</li><li>Olive Cooke</li><li>Thaddeus Cook</li><li>Marcy Cook</li><li>John Dimond</li><li>Thomas Latton Jr.</li><li>Jane Latton</li><li>Simeon Simpson</li><li>William Johnson</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1827-06-09,1827-06-09 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on June 9, 1827 and referred to committee who have the bills alluded to under consideration and sent down for concurrence and received in the House on June 9, 1827 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 12.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 6.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 6.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of colour living on the island of Chabaquidic within the town of Edgartown in the county of Dukes County and commonwealth of Massachusetts, [males of color], [females of color], ["others"] </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>Native American tribe: Chappaquiddick </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> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Chappaquiddick, regulation, instruction, government, disapprove, law, act, highly injurious to their rights liberties and interest, privileges, lands, division line, fences, pound, field drivers, appointment </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1827, c.114, passed March 10, 1828 </p>