Petition of Matthias Amos

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448070 Date of creation: 1863-01-12 Petition location: Mashpee Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Marston, Barnstable; committee on claims Selected signatures:Matthias AmosElijah W. PocknettWilliam H. Simon Actions taken on dates: 1863-01-14,1863-01-15 Legislative action: Received in the House on January 14, 1863 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on January 15, 1863 and concurred Total signatures: 3.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 3.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: selectmen and overseers of the poor in 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: Lois Pells, Sylvia Casco, Francis Hicks, clothing, doctor's bills, settlement, stat paupers, temperate, good character, inhumane, state almshouse, sickness, accounts, poor, assistance, expenses, class of persons Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1863, c.3, passed February 7, 1863