Petition of Matthew Mayhew

Petition subject: Temperance Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855791 Date of creation: 1696 Selected signatures:Matthew MayhewJames Coffin Actions taken on dates: 1696-10-03 Legislative action: Received and granted in the House on October 3, 1696 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, granted Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: representative from Martha's Vineyard, representative of Nantucket 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: request that liquor sales be banned to Indians, Dukes County, cider, strong drinks, Rhode Island, alcohol, Penn Townsend, William Stoughton Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, pages 380-380a