Petition of Elizabeth Samson

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548461 Date of creation: 1776-03-11 Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee appointed to consider petitions respecting said Indians Selected signatures:Elizabeth Samson Actions taken on dates: 1776-04-19,1776-04-20 Legislative action: Committed and received and granted in the House on April 19, 1776 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on April 20, 1776 Total signatures: 1 Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Females of color signatures: 1 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc 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 archivist notes: Hassanamisco, action of trespass, courts, lands, interest, accounts, father, 1747, Andrew Abraham, John Chandler, John Jones, Edward Baker, Elizabeth Abraham, James Whipple Jr., Ephraim Shearman, [Archibald Wiear, Archibald Weir?], Joseph Whipple, Hezekiah Ward, 1765, Artemas Ward, Ezra Taylor, Ebenezer Wheler, Ebenezer Wheeler, Indian guardians, mother, Elizabeth Sampson, James Warren, John Lowell, includes copies of documents Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 208, pages 457-458