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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448061

Date of creation: 1858-02-23

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: John Milton Earle, Worcester; committee on probate and chancery

Selected signatures:

1. John Hecktor

Actions taken on dates: 1858-02-24

Legislative action: Received in the Senate on February 24, 1858 and referred to the committee on probate and chancery

Total signatures: 1

Legislative action summary: Received, referred

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: member of the Hassanimisco tribe of Indians, [males of color], ["Hassanimisco Indian"]

Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript

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

Additional archivist notes: John Hector, Hassanamisco, sole heir, real estate, Paxton, Worcester county, Sharp Freeborn, conveyed, deeds, trustees, Indian guardians, 1768, registry of deeds, Book 127 page 349, income, property, next of kin to Elnathan Freeborn, Winchester, New Hampshire, Leander Gimby, Leander Gimbee, occupied unlawfully and without right, appointment, Charles Brigham of Grafton, courts of law, courts of justice, Grafton, [many other documents in folder, including "Abstract of the Records of the Proceedings of the Trustees for the Indians of Hassanamiscoe" with information on individuals dating back to 1720s]

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1859, c.88, passed April 6, 1859

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.