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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455186

Date of creation: 1853-03-24

Petition location: Webster

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Emory Sanford, Oxford; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. Rhoda Jaha

Actions taken on dates: 1853-04-13,1853-04-14

Legislative action: Received in the House on April 13, 1853 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on April 14, 1853 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Females of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: a member of the tribe of Dudley Indians located in said Webster and under the guardianship of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts, [females of color], ["a member of the tribe of Dudley Indians located in Webster"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Dudley tribe, Worcester county, building, dwelling house, old, dilapidated, repair, Indian guardians, includes 21 signatures in support of the petition from the citizens of Webster

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1853, c.68, passed May 4, 1853

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.