Petition of Rebecca Davis to the Massachusetts General Court

Commonwealth of Massachusetts

To the Honorable Senate and House of Representatives,

The undersigned respectfully represents that she now has a grant of fifty dollars per year as a member of the Ponkapoag Tribe of Indians; that she is seventy two years of age and that said sum of fifty dollars per year is insufficient for her comfortable support.

Wherefore, she prays that a resolve may be passed granting to her an additional sum of fifty dollars per year during her life.  And that the same may be made payable to the guardian of said tribe of Indians to be by him expended for her benefit. 

And as in duty bound will ever pray.                                                                   

Rebecca Davis, her mark                                                                       

Boston, January 17, 1863