Petition of Rebecca Davis

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448044">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448044</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1845-12-29 </p> <p>Petition location: Milton </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Thomas Tolman, Boston; committee on claims </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Rebecca Davis</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1846-01-15,1846-01-16 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on January 15, 1846 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 16, 1846 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: one of the Ponkapog Tribe of Indians formerly located in Stoughton, [females of color] </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>Native American tribe: Massachusetts, Ponkapoag </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> <p>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Vire Moho, mother, pure Indian blood, father, a colored man, Ponkapoag tribe, Norfolk county, assistance, sum, Indian guardians, infirm, aged, little labor </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1846, c.13, passed February 12, 1846 </p>