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Petition subject: Property

Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448111

Date of creation: (unknown)

Petition location: Worcester

Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Austin L. Rogers, Worcester; committee on claims

Selected signatures:

1. John Hecktor

Actions taken on dates: 1855-03-07,1855-03-09

Legislative action: Received in the House on March 7, 1855 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 9, 1855 and concurred

Total signatures: 1

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

Males of color signatures: 1

Female only signatures: No

Identifications of signatories: a descendant from the Hassanamiscoe tribe of Indians, [males of color], ["descendant of the Hassanamiscoe 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: John Hector, Hassanamisco tribe, Grafton, New Hampshire, Paxton, John Hector, ancestors, powerful, wealthy, encroachments, duplicity, English planters, reduced in numbers and in resources, act, guardianship, Indian guardians, appointment, trustees, property, lands, negligence, want of fidelity, sale, money lost and wasted, penniless and powerless, ancient records, sole heir, no claim, estate, inheritance, 1850, Moses Gimbee, legal proceedings, aged, infirm, destitute of the necessaries of life, family dependent upon him for support, entitled to valuable rights, but has no power nor means to secure them, present condition mainly by the fault and neglect of the trustees, appeal, remuneration, money, comfortable house and support, suitable agent

Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1855, c.245, passed April 27, 1855

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.