Petition of Daniel B. Amos

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11381162 Date of creation: 1846-01-09 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles C. Bearse, Barnstable; committee on claims Selected signatures:Daniel B. AmosOaks A. CoombsMatthias AmosCharles Marston Actions taken on dates: 1846-02-26,1846-02-27 Legislative action: Received in the House on February 26, 1846 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 27, 1846 and concurred Total signatures: 4.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Males of color signatures: 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: in behalf of the inhabitants of the District of Marshpee, selectmen and overseers of the poor of the district of Marshpee, commissioner of the district of Marshpee, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: Mashpee, not having any legal settlement, chargeable, state paupers, burden, Polly Cetum, non compos, offensive, loathsome, expensive, James Wells, Ephraim Jerrett [on Ephraim Jerrett, see \"The Friend\", Volume 24, page 360, states that he is one of the oldest people in the United States, potentially 107 or 116 years old, chalker by trade, formerly enslaved, slave, native of New York State, servant of Chief Justice Shaw, resided at Marshpee for 60 years] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Senate Unpassed 1846, Docket 11920