Petition of Simon Athearn

<p>Petition subject: Courts </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:33761367">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:33761367</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1697-10-26 </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Simon Athearn</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1697-10-28 </p> <p>Legislative action: Received and read and sent on October 28, 1697 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Received, read, sent </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </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: Aquinnah </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: Tiesse, Job, Isaac Ompane, Isaac Ompanit, Indians, riots, fire, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, supplicant, letter, correspondence, copy, record, clerk, John Pease, English, fever, sickness, attorney, travel, Plymouth, appeal, trials, hearing, 1695, jury, constable, Thomas Mayhew, justice of the peace, 1696, warrant, judge, prisoner, jails, prisons, families, Matthew Mayhew, Richard Sarson, James Allin, Edgartown, fences, lands, boundaries, [William Rogers], houses, buildings, goal, sheriff </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 40, pages 493-494 </p>