Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448092 Date of creation: 1867-01-31 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Davis, Edgartown; committee on claims Selected signatures:George J. BelainZaccheus CooperAaron CooperGeorge CooperSamuel PetersPatrick Devine Actions taken on dates: 1867-02-14,1867-02-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1867 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 15, 1867 and concurred Total signatures: 6 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 6 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, residents of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: annual sum, schools, continue appropriation, John Mayhew Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1867, c.10, passed March 16, 1867 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.

Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448096 Date of creation: 1868-01 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Bradley, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions Selected signatures:Thomas JeffersZaccheus HowwosweeCharles H. Mingo Actions taken on dates: 1868-02-05,1868-02-06 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 5, 1868 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 6, 1868 and concurred Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, inhabitants of Gay Head in the county of Dukes, chairman of selectmen, [males of color], ["Indians of Gay Head"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Dukes county, resolve, 1867, schools, continue sum, destitute, children, further sum, purchase of school books Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1868, c.56, passed June 6, 1868 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.

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455132 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Gayhead?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Daniel Fisher, Nantucket and Dukes; committee on claims Selected signatures:William A. VanderhoopZaccheus Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1852-02-23,1852-02-24 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 23, 1852 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 24, 1852 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: overseers of the poor at Gay Head in the county of Duke's County, [males of color], ["overseers poor of Gay Head"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Clara Shepherd, Gay Head, Gayhead, State Lunatic Hospital, Worcester, Willard Shepherd, absent, crazy, mad, dangerous, peace, safety, confined, daughter, public lands, lunacy Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1852, c.41, passed April 20, 1852 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.

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448056 Date of creation: 1855-01-12 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ivory H. Lucas, Nantucket and Dukes County; joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians Selected signatures:Zacheus HowwosweeSamuel PetersAaron Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-24,1855-01-25 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 24, 1855 and referred to the joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 25, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 3 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: on behalf of the Indians and people of colour resident at Gay Head in the county of Dukes county, overseers of Gay Head, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Gayhead, boundary line, boundaries, divisions, Chilmark, never been recorded, description lost or secreted, disputes, encroachment, claimed, occupied, lands, recover and secure our rights, commissioners, appointment, determine and run Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.15, passed March 9, 1855 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.

Petition subject: Indian resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448942 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Richard L. Pease, Edgartown; committee on agriculture Selected signatures:Thomas CooperZaccheus HowwosweeAaron CooperHebron WamsleyAmos JeffersMichael MadisonJohnson PetersJohn DivineHenry PetersLeander BassettHenry JamesSimon JohnsonJohn SalisburyJoel JaredGeorge Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1842-02-15,1842-02-16 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 15, 1842 and referred to the committee on agriculture and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 16, 1842 and concurred Total signatures: 17 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 17 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: people of colour inhabitants of Gayhead in Massachusetts and decendants of the Aborigines of this place, [males of color], ["Gay Head tribe of Indians"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: cranberries, owners of lands, proceeds, indigent, women, children, gather, staple means of support, winter, paupers, thoughtless white neighbors, depredations, hiring a watch kept while the berries were a ripening, fines Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1842, Docket 11159 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.

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448056 Date of creation: 1855-01-12 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Ivory H. Lucas, Nantucket and Dukes County; joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians Selected signatures:Zacheus HowwosweeSamuel PetersAaron Cooper Actions taken on dates: 1855-01-24,1855-01-25 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on January 24, 1855 and referred to the joint special committee on the petition of the Punkapoag Indians and sent for concurrence and received in the House on January 25, 1855 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: on behalf of the Indians and people of colour resident at Gay Head in the county of Dukes county, overseers of Gay Head, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Gayhead 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. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: Gayhead, boundary line, boundaries, divisions, Chilmark, never been recorded, description lost or secreted, disputes, encroachment, claimed, occupied, lands, recover and secure our rights, commissioners, appointment, determine and run Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.15, passed March 9, 1855

Petition subject: Education funds Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448092 Date of creation: 1867-01-31 Petition location: Gayhead Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Davis, Edgartown; committee on claims Selected signatures:George J. BelainZaccheus CooperAaron CooperGeorge CooperSamuel PetersPatrick Devine Actions taken on dates: 1867-02-14,1867-02-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 14, 1867 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 15, 1867 and concurred Total signatures: 6.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 6.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Indians and people of color, residents of Gay Head, Martha's Vineyard, [males of color], ["others"] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Gayhead 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. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: annual sum, schools, continue appropriation, John Mayhew Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1867, c.10, passed March 16, 1867