Petition of Priscilla Freeman

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448089">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448089</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Deep Botom, Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Davis, Edgartown; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Priscilla Freeman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1866-03-09,1866-03-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on March 9, 1866 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 10, 1866 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: a member of the Deep Bottom tribe of Indians, in Dukes County, [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: Deep Bottom </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: Jemima Easton, aged mother, dependent, assistance, father, deceased, expenses, sickness, death, allowance, board, physician's bill, funeral, [includes certification of Tisbury selectmen, Indian reservation, Henry Bradley, John D. Rotch, Charles Harding], [John Saunders, John Sanders] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1866, c.46, passed April 12, 1866 </p>