ICAR Research Data Repository for Knowledge Management

Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455131

Date of creation: 1797-06-05

Petition location: Grafton

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee

Selected signatures:

1. Sarah Phillips

Legislative action: Committed

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Committed

Females of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: Yes

Identifications of signatories: Indian woman, [females of color], ["one of the Indian Natives of Grafton"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: Grafton tribe, Worcester county, sale, lands, deeds, house, repairing, debts, trustees, Indian guardians, two children

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1797, c.48, passed June 23, 1797

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.