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Petition subject: Indian resources

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25763579

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Tisbury

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: David Mayhew, Tisbury; committee on fisheries

Selected signatures:

1. Priscilla Freeman

Actions taken on dates: 1874-02-20,1874-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the House on February 20, 1874 and referred to the committee on fisheries and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 24, 1874 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: the last survivors of the Deep Bottom Tribe of Indians, [females of color], ["a survivor of the Deep Bottom Tribe of Indians"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: lands, fishery, fisheries, Tisbury Great Pond, 1855, 1870, subsistence, deprived of this right, compensation

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1874, committee on claims - 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.