Disease/Illness

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Petition of the Selectmen and Overseers of the Poor for the Town of Tisbury to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Deep Bottom
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A declaration of support for the petition of Priscilla Freeman and her request for financial assistance in the care of her mother, Jemima Easton
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Petition of Priscilla Freeman to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Deep Bottom
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A request of Priscilla Freeman for financial assistance in the care of her mother, Jemima Easton
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Petition of Priscilla Freeman to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Deep Bottom
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Priscilla Freeman for financial assistance in the care of her mother, Jemima Easton
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Petition of Priscilla Freeman to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Deep Bottom
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Priscilla Freeman for financial assistance in the care of her mother, Jemima Easton, and Isaac Easton, recently deceased
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Petition of Priscilla Freeman to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Deep Bottom
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request of Priscilla Freeman for financial assistance in the care of her mother, Jemima Easton, and Isaac Easton, recently deceased
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Petition of Samuel Morse, Guardian of Sarah Wabon, to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for authority to sell land allotted to Sarah Wabon, deceased, in order to pay for the care and nursing of her daughter, Sarah Wabon
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Petition of the Selectmen of Natick, Massachusetts to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Natick, Nipmuc
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request from the Town of Natick for financial assistance from the Commonwealth in caring for Indians and their families
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Petition of Jonathan Cuffe and Other Gayhead Indians to the Governor of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Wampanoag Tribe of Gay Head (Aquinnah)
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Geography, Land, & the Environment, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Arts & Abstract Ideas
Summary
A complaint of injustices at the hands of their guardians and a request for the removal of the said guardians
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Petition of Gideon Hawley to the Massachusetts General Court

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Mashpee Wampanoag
Category
Geography, Land, & the Environment, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty, Settlement, Migration, & Resettlement
Summary
A description of his service to the Mashpee and a request that their grant of land to him be enacted
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Petition of Dr. William H. Luce to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

Digital Heritage
Community
Native Northeast Research Collaborative, Christiantown
Category
Work, Poverty, & Economy, Culture & Society, Politics, Power, & Sovereignty
Summary
A request for compensation for medical services provided to Recall Degrass