Petition of Simon Athearn

Petition subject: Incorporation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548610 Date of creation: 1692-06 Petition location: Edgartown Selected signatures:Simon Athearn Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: ["Martha's Vineyard representative"] 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: Martha's Vineyard, Elizabeth Islands, families, appointments, Boston, Chappaquiddick, Chilmark, Edgartown, Nantucket, New York, [Tickanoman's Neck, Nomans Land?], [Natuk], Tisbury, Holmes Hole, Weahtaqua Springs, town incorporation, boundaries, sheriffs, county courts, constables, clergy, religious, Benjamin Skiffe, Thomas Dogget, Joseph Norton, Jacob Norton, John Butler, Isaac Chase, Thomas Mayhew, John Gardner, John Manter, William Phips Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 112, page 422