Petition of Joseph Mayhew

Petition subject: Military Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:27334533 Date of creation: 1777-01-27 Petition location: Chilmark Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:Joseph MayhewCornelius BassettBenjamin HillmanJames NortonBenjamin Hatch Actions taken on dates: 1777-03-24,1777-03-24 Legislative action: Received and read and committed in the House on March 24, 1777 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the Council on March 24, 1777 Total signatures: 35 Legislative action summary: Received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 35 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: inhabitants 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: Martha’s Vineyard, Dukes County, defense, road, shipping, Rhode Island, Elizabeth Islands, supplies, harbors, soldiers, veterans, military service, wind, ports, continental army, king, Great Britain, stock, pasture, hay, animals, lands, oxen, agriculture, James Warren, John Avery, Walter Spooner, Tisbury, Cobb, Reed, Danielson Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 182, pages 88-90