Petition of Zechariah Mayhew

<p>Petition subject: Taxation </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334877">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334877</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1779-06-02 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Zechariah Mayhew</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1779-06-08,1779-06-10,1779-06-10 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed on June 8, 1779 and received and granted in the House on June 10, 1779 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on June 10, 1779 </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, received, granted, sent, received, read, concurred </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: Zachariah Mayhew, Chilmark, religious, reverend, missionary, Martha's Vineyard, minister, exemption, farm, salary, estate, Great Britain, Batchelder, Phelps, Cranch, John Avery, John Hancock </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 223, pages 63-64 </p>