DOI: 10.7910/dvn/44i1cy
title: Passed Resolves; Resolves 1784, c.11, SC1/series 228, Petition of Elizabeth Senah

description: &lt;p&gt;Petition subject: Support for individuals &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Original: &lt;a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455219"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:25455219&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1783-12-04 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Natick &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Selected signatures:&lt;ol&gt;&lt;li&gt;Elizabeth Senah&lt;/li&gt;&lt;/ol&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Committed &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Committed &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: Indian widow, [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;Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Additional archivist notes: Natick, of Dudley in the county of Worcester formerly of Natick in the county of Middlesex, Worcester county, Middlesex county, born in Natick, in her younger years left that town and lived in other towns, finally purchased about thirty acres of land in said Dudley, now mostly under improvement, with a dwelling house which is lately burnt, husband died, several children, some of them of age, industrious and frugal and of good morals, decease of her only sister Eunice Spywood of said Natick, lands, poor house and no fire wood, debts, your petitioner was at Natick last summer negotiating some matters relative to said estate and the support of her aged mother in law widow of her father John Brooks of said Natick deceased, dwelling house with her household furniture and provisions in Dudley were consumed by fire, her children that were at home were with great difficulty preserved, her spirits were greatly depressed, destitute of a house clothing and provisions and all to buy, her said sisters debts to pay, and her aged mother to maintain and some small debts of her own to defray, nearly sixty years of age, cannot be expected that in such circumstances she can retain her land at both towns, sale of house and lands, deeds, support, Indian guardians, [includes recommendation of Indian guardians, Josiah Stone, Eleazer Kingsbury, Jonathan Twitchell] &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1784, c.11, passed June 7, 1784 &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;