Petition of John Norton

Petition subject: Courts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831476 Date of creation: 1762-01-08 Petition location: Edgartown Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Committee Selected signatures:John NortonJohn Sumner Actions taken on dates: 1762-02-09,1762-02-09 Legislative action: Committed and reported and received and read and granted in the Council on February 9, 1762 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on February 9, 1762 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Committed, reported, 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 the Town of Edgartown 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: petitioning, James Athearn, Jonathan Allen, Chilmark, Tisbury, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, boundaries, lands, travel, accounts, juries, evidence, jurors, jury, court house, houses, buildings, farming, agriculture, horses, animals, Nomans Land, Elizabeth Islands, families, sailing, ships, compensation, licenses, taverns, liquor, alcohol, inns, pasture, hay, Boston, Rhode Island, Nantucket, trade, ferry, Holmes Hole, [Vineyard Haven], shellfish, provisions, supplies, food, money, fire wood, Chappaquiddick, privateers, Spanish war, military, forts, garrisons, defense, harbor, shipping, whalemen, whaling, maritime, fishing, fisheries, seafaring, jails, prisons, prisoners, storm, weather, taxation, ministers, religious, repairs, imprisoning and trying an Indian for murder, trials, hearing, Andrew Oliver, James Otis, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 752-762] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 117, pages 758-762