Petition of John Eliot

Petition subject: Regulation Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855727 Date of creation: 1648-10-23 Selected signatures:John Eliot 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: Mashpee 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: drinking, liquor sales, Boston, Indians, limit of half a pint of wine per man, request for only one ordinary in Boston, alcohol, gospel, Satan, religious, John Winthrop, William Torrey, includes detailed notes between Governor and Magistrates Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 12