Petition of Polly Crowd

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906096">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906096</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1870-01-24 </p> <p>Petition location: Cambridge </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: George H. Goward, Stoughton; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Polly Crowd</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1870-01-25,1870-01-26 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 25, 1870 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 26, 1870 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a member of the Ponkapog tribe of Indians, [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Massachusetts, Ponkapoag </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Ponkapoag, sick, maintenance, annual sum, Indian guardians, Polly Croud </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1870, committee on claims - leave to withdraw claims </p>