Passed Resolves; Resolves 1787, c.6, SC1/series 228, Petition of Esther Freeborn

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455119 Date of creation: 1788-02-15 Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Esther Freeborn Legislative action: Committed Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: Indian woman, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: principal of her right of dower, trustees, Indian guardians, sick husband, unable to help himself or family nor has for this seven years past, reduced to great want and much indebted, debts, doctors, necessaries of life, house, piece of land, lands, payments, comforts, in hopes of keeping our land together, [testified by Joseph Whipple, Benjamin Walker, includes recommendation from trustees of Grafton Indians, Willis Hall, Stephen Maynard, Edward Rawson] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1787, c.6, passed March 4, 1788 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.