Petition of Abraham Brown to the Massachusetts Senate and House of Representatives

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Massachusetts in General Court Assembled

Your petitioner, being one of the Indians and a People of Colour, resident at Chappaquiddick in Dukes County, would respectfully represent that he took care of Nabby Laton, an Indian of said tribe, in her last sickness and that expenses to the amount of the enclosed bill was incurred by your petitioner, that he has received no remuneration therefore, and that application, long since, would have been made to Your Honorable Body, were it not for the hope that her son would ere this been able to pay said bill.  This hope not being realized and your petitioner being poor, his only recourse is to lay the matter before You Honors and respectfully ask that a resolve be passed in his favor for the sum of $40.50.

And as in duty bound will ever pray,