DOI: 10.7910/dvn/v8b1pb
title: Petition of Thaddeus Cook

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian guardians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208696"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208696&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1809-05-14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Chappaquiddick &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thaddeus Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jaen Sandrs&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jesse Weepquish&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Weepquash&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Naby Laton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Thomas Laton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Porridg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sela Jonson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Philip Gutridg&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Peggy Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clara Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charlott Mattason&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Pooly Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Carter&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Cordner&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Joseph Simson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 31.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 17 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 11 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Unidentified signatures: 3 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: Indians and other people of coluer inhabiting the island of Chappaquidick in the county of Dukes County for, and in behalf of themselves, and the coulred people of the said island, [males of color], [females of color] &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: Chappaquiddick &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: special law, acts, tenants in common, patentees, purchasers, fences, appointment, trustees, neglect, not performed their trust, damage, cattle, sheep, creatures, animals, corn, pasturage, lands, impounded, compensation, hired or rented out, wood land, perambulate, survey, [Jean Sanders, Jane Saunders?], Jethro Worth, Martin Pease, Jonson Peters, Johnson Peters, George Jonson, George Johnson, Isaiah Jonson, Isaiah Johnson, Joseph Simson, house, law suit, swine, boat, family, sea, debts, support, William Jonson, William Johnson, Fereley Boes, Wattham Wayem, daughter, Charlotte Matteson, William Matteson, poor, Elizabeth Carter, clearing, improvements, Peter Beland, [Peter Belain?], removal, Jethro Daggett, Thadeis Cook, Thaddeus Cook, Benjamin Smith &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1809, c.70, passed February 27, 1810 &lt;/p&gt;