Passed Resolves; Resolves 1797, c.48, SC1/series 228, Petition of Sarah Phillips

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455131">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455131</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1797-06-05 </p> <p>Petition location: Grafton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Sarah Phillips</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: Indian woman, [females of color], ["one of the Indian Natives of Grafton"] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Grafton tribe, Worcester county, sale, lands, deeds, house, repairing, debts, trustees, Indian guardians, two children </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1797, c.48, passed June 23, 1797 </p> <p>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.</p>