Passed Resolves; Resolves 1801, c.104, SC1/series 228, Petition of James Athearn

<p>Petition subject: Property </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208684">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:12208684</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: (unknown) </p> <p>Petition location: [Tisbury?] </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>James Athearn</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: judge of the probate of wills in the county of Dukes County </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>Additional non-petition or unrelated documents available at archive: additional documents available </p> <p>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 </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Resolves 1801, c.104, passed February 27, 1802 </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>