DOI: 10.7910/dvn/mnerop
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:13448112"&gt;http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448112&lt;/a&gt; &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Date of creation: 1869-02-16 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Petition location: Tisbury &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Rodney French, New Bedford; committee on Indian Affairs &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: 1869-02-25,1869-02-26 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action: Received in the House on February 25, 1869 and referred to the committee on Indian Affairs and sent for concurrence and received in the Senate on February 26, 1869 and concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Total signatures: 1.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Legislative action summary: Received, referred, sent, received, concurred &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Females of color signatures: 1.0 &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Female only signatures: Yes &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Identifications of signatories: of Deep Bottom in the town of Tisbury and county of Dukes county, sole surviving member of the Deep Bottom tribe of Indians now resident on the Indian reservation there, [females of color], ["selectmen of Tisbury"] &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: Deep Bottom reservation, Martha's Vineyard, Jemima Easton, mother, helpless, 1859, 1868, Isaac Easton, not quite infirm, husband in feeble health, several minor children, medicine and medical attendance, deeds, quit claim, right title and interest in and to all and any land situate in the town of Tisbury at said Deep Bottom or elsewhere, lands, Charles Marston of Barnstable, Indian customs, land records for Dukes county, Indian usage, husband foreigner or member of another tribe, being privy thereto and making no objections to the transfer of the property, acknowledged before witnesses, justice of the peace, intend to convey land, right to the property thus conveyed to her is denied by her brother, remove her mother to New Bedford, much greater cost, anxious to return to home in Deep Bottom, compensation, remunerate, services, expenses, accounts, claims, commissioner, appointment, titles of Indian lands, Gayhead, Gay Head, [John Saunders, John Sanders], includes certification from selectmen of the town of Tisbury, Henry Bradley, John D. Rotch &lt;/p&gt; &lt;p&gt;Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: St. 1869, c.413, passed June 17, 1869 &lt;/p&gt;