Petition of James Athearn

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448015">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:13448015</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: Tisbury </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James Athearn</li></ol> </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and concurred </p> <p>Total signatures: 1.0 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, concurred </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1.0 </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: Gayhead </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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>Additional archivist notes: 1770, Joash Panue, Joash Panu, Gayhead, Gay Head, small dwelling house after the English manner, whale fishery, voyage, building materials and labor, charges, balance, West Indies, Brazil, Dukes county, vessel, taken by British, widow, Indian wigwam, payments, debts, [lawyer, judge of probate, clerk of court], [On the widow, Athearn stated she was "exceedingly vicious" and "...has lately married a negro as bad as herself."] </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1785, c.17, passed February 15, 1786 </p>