Petition of Walter Cooke

<p>Petition subject: Regulation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855784">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855784</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1685-05-25 </p> <p>Petition location: Mendon </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Walter Cooke</li><li>Joseph White</li><li>Josiah Chapin</li><li>Eleazer Wheelock</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 21 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 21 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: the inhabitants of Mendon, pore supplians </p> <p>Prayer format was <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Printing">printed</a> vs. <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manuscript">manuscript</a>: Manuscript </p> <p>Native American tribe: Nipmuc </p> <p>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.</p> <p>Additional archivist notes: danger, drunkenness, heathen, religious, murderous attempts, restricted movement through the town, ban on arms, ammunition, firearms, weapons, entertainment, liquor, Boston, alcohol </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 304 </p>