Petition of Paul Adams

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448077 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Boston Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Phinehas J. Stone, Charlestown; committee on claims Selected signatures:Paul AdamsA.H. EvansCurtis C. Nicholas Actions taken on dates: 1864-02-03,1864-02-04 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 3, 1864 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 4, 1864 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: a member of the Ponkapoag tribe of Indians, for Rebecca Davis, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Massachusetts, Ponkapoag 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: Suffolk county, aged, infirm, assistance, allowance annually, Indian fund, insufficient, further sum, treasury Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1864, c.15, passed March 3, 1864