Petition of John Allen

Petition subject: Courts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:33011474 Date of creation: 1733 Petition location: Martha's Vineyard Selected signatures:John AllenSimeon Butler Actions taken on dates: 1733-02-16,1733-04-06 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on February 16, 1733 and received and granted and publicly admonished in the Council on April 6, 1733 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, received, granted, publicly admonished Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Esqr, Gentn both in Dukes County Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Aquinnah 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. Additional archivist notes: Chilmark, Edgartown, gentlemen, Pain Mayhew, justice, clerk, voting, field driver, Gay Head, Gayhead, impounded 100 sheep, Deacon Simon Mayhew, religious, replevin, Zaccheus Mayhew, Zephaniah Mayhew, Francis Bryan, schoolmaster, refused to teach Zephaniah Mayhew’s Indian girl to read, schools, education, literacy, servants, servitude, fines, selectmen, Enoch Coffin, Benjamin Smith, files, records, secretary's office, Boston, Jonathan Belcher, hearing Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 41, pages 132-134