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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448049

Date of creation: 1849-01

Petition location: Grafton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Peter C. Bacon, Worcester; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. John Hecktor
2. Susannah Hecktor
3. Edward Hecktor
4. Richard Hecktor
5. Moses Hecktor
6. Frederick Hecktor
7. William Hecktor
8. Asa Hecktor
9. Susan Hecktor
10. Cornelia Hecktor

Actions taken on dates: 1849-02-17,1849-02-19

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 17, 1849 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and receivd in the Senate on February 19, 1849 and concurred

Total signatures: 10

Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred

Females of color signatures: 3

Males of color signatures: 7

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: descendants from the Hassanamessette tribe of Indians, formerly holding the lands included within the town of Grafton, in the county of Worcester, [males of color], [females of color]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

Signatory column format: not column separated

Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available

Additional archivist notes: John Hector, Hassanamisco tribe, Worcester county, 1628, ancestors, sale, English planters, lands, territory, trustees, Indian guardians, grantors, descendants, guardianship, appointment, protection, preservation, negligence, want of fidelity, trust fund, diminished, income, management, officers, lost or wasted, fault or misconduct, allowance, justice, judge of probate

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1849, c.49, passed April 4, 1849

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.