Petition of Simon Athearn

Petition subject: Taxation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548618 Date of creation: 1694-10-20 Petition location: Martha's Vineyard Selected signatures:Simon Athearn Total signatures: 1 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: supplycant 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: Tisbury, Chilmark, Chappaquiddick, Gay Head, Edgartown, Elizabeth Islands, Nashan Ilse, Chikkemoo, Plymouth, New York, meeting house, courts, buildings, farm, Holme's Hole, Vineyard Harbor, Vineyard Sound, Matthew Mayhew, representative, houses, cottages, hay, corn, agriculture, laws, lands, boundaries, surveys, maps, plans, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 58-58a, 88-88a, 94-96, 111, 117-122, and v.112, pages 422, 424, and 435] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 113, pages 94-96