Petition of Priscilla Freeman

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448067 Date of creation: 1862-01 Petition location: Tisbury Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Edgar Marchant, Edgartown; committee on claims Selected signatures:Priscilla Freeman Actions taken on dates: 1862-01-13,1862-01-14 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 13, 1862 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 14, 1862 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 the town of 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: Priscilla Jackson, Tristam Freeman, mother, Jemima Easton, oldest remaining member of said tribe, assistance, sick, labor, medical attendance, aid, personally ministering to her wants and necessities and supplying her with every comfort and aid within her power to procure, family of young children, subsistence, best exertions, task of providing, burden, more than she can bear alone, kind and provident, poor and needy natives, remnants of those once lords of the soil, provision, sum, annually paid, overseers of the poor, [John Saunders, John Sanders] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1862, c.38, passed April 1, 1862