DOI: 10.7910/dvn/tauqag
title: Petition of Zeacheous Howwoswee

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Support for individuals &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381169"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381169&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1849-02-14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Gayhead &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Francis W. Bird, East Walpole, Mass.; Samuel S. Perkins, Boston &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zeacheous Howwoswee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George David&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tristram Weeks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Jeffers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Levi Cuff&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alvin Manings&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Silvia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hebro Wamsley Jr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hebron Wamsley Sr.&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Jeffers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac D. Rose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jonathan Francis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abram Rodman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-28 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 28, 1849 and laid on the table and printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 17.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, laid on table, printed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color on Gayhead in Dukes county, [males of color], ["proprietors of Gay Head"] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Signatory column format: not column separated &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Gayhead &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Zaccheus Howwoswee, no action, proprietors, lands, debts, boundaries, marriage, married women, lived in other towns and were voters there, married strangers, never come on Gayhead to live, children or grandchildren will come and claim to be full proprietors, poor, education, laws, petitioning, includes note to commissioners that were appointed to visit the Indians of the Commonwealth, request to present petition and make mention of it in the report, school house, proprietors clerk, [many other documents in folder] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1849, Docket 12722 &lt;/p&gt;