Petition of Charles Marston

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448047 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Josiah Hinckley, Barnstable; committee on claims Selected signatures:Charles Marston Actions taken on dates: 1848-01-29,1848-01-31 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 29, 1848 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 31, 1848 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: commissioner and treasurer of the district of Marshpee Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: number of poor persons, state paupers, limited resources, act, remuneration, Resolves 1847, c.54, accounts, expenses, James Wells, now dead, Quam Hazard, blind, Lois Pells, Martha Summons, Polly Cetum, idiot, John Odiorne, infirm and crippled, Mercy Odiorne, infirm, Alfred Amy, non compos and lost one foot, Silvia Casco, infirm, Betsey Amos, helped when sick, Ephraim Jerrett, blind, Abraham Jackson, helped when sick, now dead Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1848, c.29, passed April 20, 1848