Petition of Zoheth Smith

Petition subject: Taxation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548694 Date of creation: 1747-08-21 Petition location: Eastham Selected signatures:Zoheth SmithElisha Holbrook Actions taken on dates: 1747-09-02,1747-09-02,1748-02-26,1748-02-26 Legislative action: Received and read and granted in the House on September 2, 1747 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on September 2, 1747 and received and read and granted in the House on February 26, 1748 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on February 26, 1748 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, granted, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Agents for and on the behalf of the North Precinct of Eastham Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Mashpee 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: smallpox, diseases, sickness, expedition to Cape Breton, travel, Boston, Castle William, selectmen, families, maritime, sand, lands, agriculture, oysters, clothes, Cape Breton Island, Nova Scotia, Canada, Fort Independence, Louisbourg Expedition, 1745, fishing, military service, Benjamin Swett, Edward Riley, Isaiah Lewis, William Foy, Elisha Doane, Josiah Willard, William Shirley, Thomas Hutchinson, Wellfleet Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 115, pages 233-234