Petition of John Myers

<p>Petition subject: Court cases </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548318">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548318</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1741 </p> <p>Petition location: Martha's Vineyard </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>John Myers</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>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: stealing, theft, Enoch Coffin, Benjamin Skiffe, Edgartown, courts, Chilmark, Dukes County, James Claghorn, entertain, goods, sheep wool, rum, liquor, alcohol, Claghorn's servant, Indian woman Pethian Norson, Pethian Norton, Pethiah Norson, Pethiah Norton, Peleck Norson, Peleck Norton, Nicolas Norton, Nicholas Norton, justices of the peace, includes court documents </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 105, pages 179-181 </p>