Petition of John Paine

<p>Petition subject: Court cases </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855800">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:26855800</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1700-11-01 </p> <p>Petition location: Boston </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Paine</li></ol> </p> <p>Total signatures: 1 </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 1 </p> <p>Female only signatures: No </p> <p>Identifications of signatories: in behalf of himself and his servts </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: John Payne, Long Island, New York, sloop, Southold, Martha’s Vineyard sound, gun, death, trial, request for special court, hearing, Boston, servants, William Stoughton </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 30, page 463 </p>