Petition of Sarah M. Ciscoe

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906094 Date of creation: 1867-12-25 Petition location: Grafton Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: J.H. Wood, Grafton; committee on claims Selected signatures:Sarah M. CiscoeP. Phidelia Clinton Actions taken on dates: 1868-01-22,1868-01-23 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 22, 1868 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 23, 1868 and concurred Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Females of color signatures: 2 Female only signatures: Yes Identifications of signatories: a small remnant of the Hassanamisco tribe of Indians, [females of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc, Hassanamisco 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: repairs, little humble dwelling, decay, insufficient, house, territory, lands, Worcester county, 1725, sale, two thousand and five hundred pounds, trustees, Indian guardians, appointments, no voice, without any agency of ours, money, grant, dwelling house which is the only one on our ancient domain, Hassanamisco, Worcester, property, John Milton Earle, includes note, history of the Indians, [additional documents include correspondence of Charles Brigham]; ["We are few, poor, weak, despised and trodden in the dust. We shall soon become extinct, and even now the graves of our ancestors are not to be found."] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1868, committee on claims - leave to withdraw claims