Petition of John Hecktor

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906090 Date of creation: 1862-03-10 Petition location: Worcester Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Delano A. Goddard, Worcester; committee on claims Selected signatures:John Hecktor Actions taken on dates: 1862-03-13,1862-03-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on March 13, 1862 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 14, 1862 and concurred Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a member of the Hassanimisco tribe of Indians, [males of color] 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, Hassanamisco, Grafton, 1727, lands, sale, two thousand five hundred pounds, trustees, Indian guardians, appointments, neglect, mismanagement, squandered, entirely lost, John Milton Earle, report, account of all transactions, Senate Document No.96, aged, infirm, manual labor, extreme poverty and destitution, charity, support, relief, simple, evidence, claims, complete and satisfactory, deprived your petitioner of all rights of citizenship and has taken his property without his consent, returned, sole surviving heir of Moses Gimby, Moses Gimbee, Ashuelot river, Winchester, New Hampshire, no legal claim, conveyance, investigation, ["…but that your petitioner is unable to obtain possession thereof because he is deprived of citizenship and not allowed to bring actions in the courts of this Commonwealth or the state of New Hampshire…"] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1862, joint committee on claims - leave to withdraw