Petition of Charles Brigham

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448060 Date of creation: 1857-01-09 Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Luke F. Allen, Grafton; committee on public lands Selected signatures:Charles Brigham Actions taken on dates: 1857-01-27,1857-01-28 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 27, 1857 and referred to the committee on public lands and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 28, 1857 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: trustee of the Grafton or Hassanamisco tribe of Indians Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc, Hassanamisco 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. Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: John Hector, John Hecktor, Indian guardians, lands, heirs, small untenantable house, old barn, John S. Sweeney and Farrington McIntire, Samuel Cisco, public highway, Worcester, estate, sale, deeds, proceeds, wife, children, family, [includes, certification, certificate signed by John Hecktor, Susannah Hecktor, Susan Hecktor, Cornelia Hecktor, Moses Hecktor, and William Hecktor, and note from Charles Brigham that he can meet the committee] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1857, c.32, passed April 18, 1857