DOI: 10.7910/dvn/uxqjp3
title: Petition of Priscilla Freeman

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Property &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906095"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13906095&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1868-02-25 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Deep Bottom &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Charles Bradley, Tisbury; committee on claims; joint special committee on the subject of the Indians &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Priscilla Freeman&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Actions taken on dates: 1868-03-03,1868-03-04,1868-03-13,1868-03-14 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on March 3, 1868 and referred to the committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 4, 1868 and concurred and received in the House on March 13, 1868 and reported and referred to the joint special committee on the subject of the Indians and discharged from committee on claims and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on March 14, 1868 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred, received, reported, referred, discharged, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: Yes &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: sole surviving member of the Deep Bottom tribe of Indians now resident on the Indian reservation there, [females of color] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Prayer format was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing"&gt;printed&lt;/a&gt; vs. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript"&gt;manuscript&lt;/a&gt;: Manuscript &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Native American tribe: Deep Bottom &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;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.&lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Tisbury, Dukes County, mother, Jemima Easton, helpless, 1859, Isaac Easton, who married her mother, infirm, death, support, labor, husband in feeble health, several minor children, medicine, medical attendance, deeds, deed of quit claim, right title and interest in and to all and any land, lands, Charles Marston, Barnstable, Indian customs, recorded in the land records, Isaac Easton, husband was a foreigner or member of another tribe, no objections to the transfer, property, witnesses, justice of the peace, conveyance, denied by her brother, removed her mother to New Bedford, much greater cost, anxious to return to home, maintenance, compensation, remunerate, services, expenses, accounts, claims, commissioners, appointments, includes certification from the selectmen of Tisbury, Gay Head, Gayhead, selectmen certification, Henry Bradley, John Rotch, [John Saunders, John Sanders] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: House Unpassed 1868, joint special committee on the subject of Indians - leave to withdraw &lt;/p&gt;