Petition of Priscilla Freeman

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448071 Date of creation: 1863-01 Petition location: 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: 1863-02-03,1863-02-04 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 3, 1863 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 4, 1863 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: of the Deep Bottom tribe of Indians in Tisbury, in the county of Dukes county, [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, mother, oldest surviving member of said tribe, assistance, sick, labor, medical attention, unable to dress or redress herself, or attend to her own personal wants, aid, comfort, personally ministering to her wants and necessities, leaving her own home, family of young children, diligence and economy, comfortable maintenance, uniform kindness to the poor and needy natives who yet linger in their midst, sums, payments, annually, overseers of the poor, [John Saunders, John Sanders] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1863, c.16, passed February 21, 1863