Petition of Moses and Lucy Gimbee to the Massachusetts General Court
Commonwealth of Massachusetts
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives in General Court Assembled
The petition of Moses Gimbee and Lucy Gimbee, alias Lucy Hector,1 humbly sheweth that your petitioners, with Caesar Gimbee, their brother, are descended in the line of their mother2 from the Hassanamisco Tribe of Indians in the Town of Grafton, and in her right were entitled to three-eights of one-seventh part of the property belonging to said Indians in that town. That in the month of April 1801, the Trustees of said Indians sold lands by order of the General Court belonging to the said Caesar Gimbee, amounting to the sum of two hundred and fifty-two dollars and eighty-three cents, exclusive of charges of sale, which, with the interest arising thereon and not paid to said Caesar, together with his right in the common fund belonging to said Indian tribe and the annual dividends of interest, now amount to something more than four hundred and fifty dollars. That in the month of April 1803, the said Caesar went to sea, and had not since returned, but according to the best information your petitioners can obtain, died at the Island of Guadaloupe in the month of September 1805. And your petitioners, fully believing the account of the said Caesar's decease to be true, and being the only heirs to his estate, therefore, humbly pray this Honorable Court would be pleased to direct the Trustee of said Indians, in whose hands the aforesaid money now remains, to pay over the same to them in equal proportion, or otherwise dispose of the same for their benefit, as to this Honorable Court shall seem meet.
And as in duty bound will ever pray,
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Endorsement: |
Resolve on the petition of Moses and Lucy Gimbee [ obscured ] arising the Trustee of the Hassanamisco Indians to pay them the interest arising from the amount of Caesar Gimbee's estate / January 28, 1815 |
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Certification: |
I certify that the facts set forth in the foregoing petition appear to me to be true, and from the long absence of the said Caesar Gimbee, it cannot be probable that he is now living, and am therefore of opinion that it would be reasonable that the petitioners should have the benefit of his estate. Asa Goodell, Trustee, January 14, [1815] |
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Legislative Action: |
Petition of Moses Gimbee and Lucy Gimbee / Mr. Draper, Spencer / Mr. Wheeler, Grafton / Firke, Framingham / Recorded / Copied |
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Docketing: |
113 |