Petition of Patience Gembee

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548463">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548463</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1776-08-26 </p> <p>Petition location: Grafton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Patience Gembee</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1776-10-11,1776-10-11 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and granted in the House on October 11, 1776 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on October 11, 1776 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: an Indian Native of Grafton, [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: Nipmuc </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 archivist notes: Hassanamisco, Patience Gimbee, sister, will, money, sickness, doctors, medical, debts, Willis Hall, Stephen Maynard, Edward Rawson, Indian guardians, John Avery, Samuel Freeman, Batcheller, Biggelow, Thomas, includes affidavits, certifications </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 210, pages 324-325 </p>