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Petition subject: Support for individuals

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:11018101

Date of creation: 1865-02-08

Petition location: Wayland

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Robert W. Derby, Stow; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. J.N. Sherman
2. William C. Grout
3. Henry R. Newton

Actions taken on dates: 1865-02-11,1865-02-13

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 11, 1865 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 13, 1865 and concurred

Total signatures: 3

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

Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: selectmen of Wayland

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: George Hayward, a fugitive slave born in the state of Maryland, about 25 years of age, lived in the state of Pennsylvania, "let himself" to Joseph Bullard, labor, farm, contracted small pox, application by Dr. Otis Hunt and Mr. Bullard, expenses, sickness, nurse, physician, Patrick Dolan, delirium, delirious, insane, a king of religious mono-mania, so boisterous as greatly to disturb the peace of the neighborhood, committed to house of correction in East Cambridge, Reverend Leonard Grimes, now at liberty, reimbursement, nursing, bill, medical attendance, accounts

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1865, leave to withdraw

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.