DOI: 10.7910/dvn/fltrzb
title: Petition of Simon Johnson

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Indian resources &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448110"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448110&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &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: Smith Mayhew, Chilmark; committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Simon Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Amos Jeffers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Aaron Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Mingo&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Asa Wainer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Samuel Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Johannes Salisbury&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Michael Madison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;James Jeffrey&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Isaac Rose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hebron Wamsley&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Tristram Weeks&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Zaccheus Howwoswee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abel Manning&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Josiah Jerrod&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Leonard Jeffers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Alexander Brown&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;William Vanderhoop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;John Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;George David&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Parnal Divine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Jane Francis&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clarissa Shepherd&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Wainer&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lucy Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Cuff&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sarah Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Eleanora Sylvia&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Diadama Madison&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sophia Belain&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Huldah Bassett&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Harriet Rose&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Cole&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Patience Gershom&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Howwoswee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Charlotte Rodman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Esther Howwoswee&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Ann Nevers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abiah Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Bethiah Jeffers&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Beulah Vanderhoop&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsy Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Sophronia Williams&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Louisa David&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Mors&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Remember Cooper&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Devine&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1845-01-27 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on January 27, 1845 and referred to the committee on the judiciary &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 78.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 46.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 32.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: people of color and proprietors of Gay Head, [males of color], [females of color], ["proprietors of Gayhead"] &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: 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: Cranberries, cranberry, Gayhead, lands, owners, people having no right whatever gathering, gather before sufficiently ripe, justice, fines, imprisonment, penalty, descedants of the aborigines, law &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1845, c.202, passed March 25, 1845 &lt;/p&gt;