Petition of Oaks A. Coombs

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448046 Date of creation: 1847-01 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas B. Lewis, Barnstable; committee on claims Selected signatures:Oaks A. CoombsEbenezer AttaquinNathan Pocknet Actions taken on dates: 1847-02-11,1847-02-12 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1847 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 12, 1847 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: selectmen and overseers of the poor of the District of Marshpee, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: number of poor persons, no legal settlement, assistance, state pauper, accounts, expenses, supplies, income, taxation, schools, school fund, nursery for state paupers, no public poorhouse, Indian guardians, special law, Barnstable, oath, Josiah Sampson, justice of the peace, certification, Charles Marston, commissioner and treasurer of the district of Marshpee, John Odiorne, Mercy Odiorne, Ephraim Jerrett, James Wells, Martha Summons, Abraham Jackson, Betsey Amos, William Carter, Herring Pond, Guinea, Boston harbor, robbed by his captain, the master of the vessel, some 60 years ago, commissioner and treasurer of Herring Pond plantation an Indian territory in Plymouth and Sandwich Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1847, c.23, passed March 20, 1847