Petition of Abraham Brown

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448057">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448057</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1855-03-12 </p> <p>Petition location: Edgartown </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Abraham Brown</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-17,1855-03-20 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the Senate on March 17, 1855 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on March 20, 1855 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Males of color signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: one of the Indians and people of colour resident at Chappaquiddick in Dukes County, [males 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: Chappaquiddick </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: Nabby Laton, Chappaquiddick, sickness, care, expenses, amounts, bill, remuneration, payments, son, poor </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1855, c.38, passed April 26, 1855 </p>