House Unpassed Legislation 1874, S 359 rejected, SC1/series 230, Petition of Priscilla Freeman

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763669">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763669</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Mayhew, Tisbury; committee on public charitable institutions </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Priscilla Freeman</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1874-02-20,1874-02-24 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1874 and referred to the committee on public charitable institutions and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 24, 1874 and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the last survivors of the Deep Bottom Tribe of Indians, [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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: sheep pasture, unfenced, cultivated ground, roads, schools, fences, fencing, lands, burial lot, aid, parents, state paupers, physicians, cemetery </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1874, S 359 rejected </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>