Petition of Mary Sedauda

<p>Petition subject: Support for individuals </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548168">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548168</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1758-03-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Mary Sedauda</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1758-03-14,1758-03-15 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and received and read and granted in the House on March 14, 1758 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on March 15, 1758 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </p> <p>Females of color signatures: 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: Yes </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: formerly a French Cagnawaga Squaw, but a constant resident in this Province for Twenty nine years last past, [females of color] </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Stockbridge-Munsee </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: Mary Sedanda, Caughnawaga, French Cagnawaga, Mohawk, Iroquois, Six Nations, captives, captivity, Canada, Captain Joseph Kellogg and sister Rebeckah Kellogg, son, daughter, New England, English families, husband drowned in Deerfield River, military service, veterans, soldiers, General Shirley's regiment, expeditions, prisoners of war, French and Indian War, Crown Point Expedition, New York, support, clothing, accounts, Elijah Williams, William Shirley, Thomas Pownall, William Lawrence, Thomas Hubbard, Thomas Clark, John Brown, Fellows Billings </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 33, pages 35-35a </p>