Petition of Priscilla Freeman

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448079 Date of creation: 1864-02-11 Petition location: Deep Botom, Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: William H. Sturtevant, Tisbury; committee on claims Selected signatures:Priscilla Freeman Actions taken on dates: 1864-02-18,1864-02-19 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 18, 1864 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 19, 1864 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 1.0 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: one of the Indian people of the Deep Bottom tribe, now nearly extinct, and blotted out, whose residence is in the southeast part of the town of Tisbury, in the county of Dukes county, one of the red women, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Deep Bottom 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: Jemima Easton, aged mother, food and drink, nursing and constant care, helpless, heavy person, furnish her all necessaries, duty and a privilege, family, house work, washing, ironing, livelihood, aid, medical attendance and medicines, increase, appeal, her guardians and her friends, [John Saunders, John Sanders], [includes certification from the selectmen of Tisbury, industrious person, of good moral conduct, correct statement, no legal settlement, M.P. Butler, Bartlett Mayhew, Joseph Adams] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1864, c.29, passed March 16, 1864