Petition of Samuel M. Godfrey

<p>Petition subject: Indian resources </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448078">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448078</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1863-01-07 </p> <p>Petition location: Mashpee </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Marston, Barnstable; committee on public charitable institutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Samuel M. Godfrey</li><li>Elias De Grass</li><li>Silas Pells</li><li>Ephraim Toby</li><li>Nathan Pocknet</li><li>Oaks A. Coombs</li><li>Oliver Gardner</li><li>Isaac Hendrick</li><li>David Robins</li><li>Silva Casco</li><li>Lisbon Johnson</li><li>Mary Jones</li><li>John Brown</li><li>Francis Hicks</li><li>Esther Cowitt</li><li>Delia Amos</li><li>Abner Hicks</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1864-01-26,1864-01-27 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 26, 1864 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 27, 1864 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 33.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 4.0 </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 27.0 </p> <p>Unidentified signatures: 2.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian proprietors and inhabitants of the district of Marshpee, [females of color], [males of color], ["citizens"] </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>Signatory column format: not column separated </p> <p>Native American tribe: Mashpee </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: poor, sick, physician, difficult to procure, payments, surgeon, Henry E. McCollum, family to support, medical and surgical aid, not only to the proprietors but people of colour residing on said district, state paupers, appropriation, services </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1864, c.19, passed March 5, 1864 </p>