Petition of John Hecktor

Petition subject: Support for individuals Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448083 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: Worcester Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: E.B. Stoddard, Worcester; committee on claims Selected signatures:John Hecktor Actions taken on dates: 1865-02-07,1865-02-08 Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 7, 1865 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the House on February 8, 1865 and concurred Total signatures: 1.0 Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred Males of color signatures: 1.0 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: member of the Hassanimisco tribe and a descendant of John Printer the Indian compositor who assisted in the printing of the Missionary Elliot's Indian Bible, [males of color] Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Nipmuc, Hassanamisco 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: John Hector, Grafton, Hassanamisco, infirm, John Eliot, Eliot Indian Bible, aged wife, daughter, disease, aid, most object penury want and suffering, equitable claim for funds lost by the mismanagement of the agent of the state, Indian guardians, pension, bounty, annual stipend, sore and pressing necessities, mitigate his sufferings and smoothe the rugged path of his declining years, includes certification, worthy and respectable, assistance, very strong claims for the aid, Henry Chapin, judge of probate court, and from, John Milton Earle, statements correct, formerly Indian Commissioner under special act of the legislature Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1865, c.9, passed March 16, 1865