Petition of Pain Mayhew

Petition subject: Resources Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855941 Date of creation: 1747-11-25 Petition location: Chilmark Selected signatures:Pain MayhewJohn SumnerWilliam Hunt Total signatures: 3 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 3 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: guardians for the Indians 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: answer, Gay Head, Gayhead, English, houses, buildings, lands, fences, posts, rails, stakes, lease, timber, sale, complaints, abuses, dismissed, petitioning, Dukes county, lumber, fire wood, Indian guardians, fishing, cattle, feed, grass, Martha's Vineyard, includes note, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 550-552] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 31, pages 550-550a