Petition of Isaiah Johnson

<p>Petition subject: Indian guardians </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231226">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12231226</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1809-05-22 </p> <p>Petition location: Chappaquiddick </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Isaiah Johnson</li><li>Asa Johnson</li><li>George Johnson Jr.</li><li>Betsy Johnson</li><li>James Wimpe</li><li>Joseph Warren</li><li>Isaiah Blan</li><li>Thiah Moses</li><li>Ebenezer Curdudy</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 19.0 </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 5 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 13 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian natives and people of colour, being tenants in common in the Indian lands on the island of Chapequidick in the county of Dukes County, [males of color], [females 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>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: Jethro Worth, Martin Pease, George Johnson, Edgartown, certification from Indian guardians, lands, acts, laws, families, women, improvements, divisions, govern, regulate </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1809, c.70, passed February 27, 1810 </p>