House Unpassed Legislation 1872, H 247 rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Priscilla Freeman

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763641 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Tisbury?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Nathaniel M. Jernegan, Edgartown; committee on judiciary; committee on claims Selected signatures:Priscilla Freeman Actions taken on dates: 1872-02-19,1872-02-21,1872-02-23 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 19, 1872 and referred to the committee on the judiciary and referred to the committee on claims on February 21, 1872 and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 23, 1872 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: with her family are the last survivors of the Deep Bottom Tribe of Indians, [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: material for fencing the burial ground of her tribe, desecrated by the enroachments of the cattle and sheep of her white neighbors, lands, planting, appropriation, fence, tillage, state aid Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1872, H 247 rejected 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.