Petition of Solomon Attaquin

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448065 Date of creation: 1862-01 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Asa E. Lovell, Barnstable; committee on claims Selected signatures:Solomon AttaquinWilliam H. SimonCharles Marston Actions taken on dates: 1862-01-22 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1862 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 22, 1862 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 of Marshpee, justice of the peace, treasurer 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: Lois Pells, came from Tiverton, Rhode Island when she was 7 years old, no settlement, temperate, good character, Sylvia Casco, Thomas and Betsey James, Isaac Hendrick, Germantown, Pennsylvania, 1836, state paupers, coloured persons, accounts, clothing, house, garden, rent, board, sickness, doctor's bill, attendance, funeral expenses, coffin, maintenance, audited, judge of probate, Barnstable county, governor and council, payments, law, removal to state almshouse, inhuman, pass away to the spirit land which must soon take place Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1862, c.8, passed February 25, 1862