Petition of James Athearn

Petition subject: Courts Original: http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28831475 Date of creation: 1761 Petition location: Tisbury, Chilmark Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee Selected signatures:James AthearnJonathan Allen Actions taken on dates: 1761-11-20,1761-11-20,1762-01-21,1762-01-22,1762-02-06,1762-02-06 Legislative action: Received and read and ordered to serve a copy of the petition in the Council on November 20, 1761 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on November 20, 1761 and received and read and committed in the Council on January 21, 1762 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on January 22, 1762 and received and committed in the Council on February 6, 1762 and sent for concurrence and received and read and concurred in the House on February 6, 1762 Total signatures: 2 Legislative action summary: Received, read, ordered, sent, received, read, concurred, received, read, committed, sent, received, read, concurred, received, committed, sent, received, read, concurred Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 Female only signatures: No Identifications of signatories: Agents for the Towns of Tisbury & Chillmark in Dukes County 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: Chilmark, Tisbury, Edgartown, Martha's Vineyard, Dukes County, English, shiretown, travel, juries, witnesses, Elizabeth Islands, Nomans Land, pasture, hay, horses, Benjamin Lynde, John Cushing, Tyler, Livermore, Richardson, John Choate, Andrew Oliver, James Otis, [additional documents in volumes, see pages 752-762] Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 117, pages 752-754