Petition of Simon Athearn

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:33761365 Date of creation: 1696-09-16 Petition location: Tisbury Selected signatures:Simon Athearn Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No 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: lands, trespass, English, Indians, removal, “his labourers,” [servants, servitude], Indian Sachem, houses, buildings, sale, Dukes County, Richard Sarson, justice of the peace, tillage, agriculture, wheat, Matthew Mayhew, courts, warrants, Samuel Athearn, son, families, jails, prisons, Thomas Mayhew, trials, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 424-428] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 40, pages 427-428