DOI: 10.7910/dvn/ddgg03
title: Petition of Mary Cook

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:13448034"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448034&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: (unknown) &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Chappaquiddick &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Mary Cook&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Betsy Peters&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Mary Cook for Olive Cooke]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Mary Cook for my son Thaddeus Cooke]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Mary Cook for Thaddeus Cook Jr.]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Simpson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Hannah Simpson for my sons]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lovice Simpson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Lewis Simpson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[William Johnson for my daughters Mary Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Hannah Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elihu Johnson&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Clarissa Johnson]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;[Nelly Joseph for my sons]&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Francis Goodrege&lt;/li&gt;&lt;li&gt;Abigail Latton&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1829-06-09 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on June 9, 1829 and committed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 29.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, committed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 14.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Males of color signatures: 15.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: No &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: natives of the island of Chapoquidick on Martha's Vineyard, [males of color], [females of color], ["sundry Natives of Chappaquiddick"] &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: Chappaquiddick, division, lands, strangers, marriage, prejudice, labor, industry, cultivated the soil, rendered it productive, soil, settlers, improvement, owners, justice, poor, property, common field, residents, payments, debts, support, funds, line, fences, proprietors, remonstrance, repair, application, Indian guardians, roads, cattle, paupers, taxation, burthens, burdens, expenses, claims, accounts, constables, pounds, enforce the law, appointment, petitioning, attested, John Huxford, [Peter Coffin?], [Includes notes next to signatures, people signing for others, particularly from women, females] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1829, c.56, passed March 2, 1830 &lt;/p&gt;