Petition of James Athearn

Petition subject: Property Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208684 Date of creation: (unknown) Petition location: [Tisbury?] Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:James Athearn Total signatures: 1.0 Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: judge of the probate of wills in the county of Dukes County Prayer format was printed vs. manuscript: Manuscript Native American tribe: Gayhead 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 non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available Additional archivist notes: resolve, Sarah Amos of Tisbury, a very aged Indian woman, sale, lands, debts, nursing, supplies, fences, Ezekiel Luce of Tisbury, examination, allowance, distribution, heirs, estate, son, marriage, sick, deceased, pregnancy, daughter, clothing, George Peters, molatto man, prudent farmer, liquor, alcohol, summum bonum, rum, coroners bills, Ann Peters Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1801, c.104, passed February 27, 1802