Petition of Zechariah Mayhew

<p>Petition subject: Religion </p> <p>Original: <a href="http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548406">http://nrs.harvard.edu/urn-3:FHCL:28548406</a> </p> <p>Date of creation: 1777-11 </p> <p>Petition location: Massachusetts </p> <p>Legislator, committee, or address that the petition was sent to: Several names from a committee </p> <p>Selected signatures:<ol><li>Zechariah Mayhew</li><li>Gideon Hawley</li></ol> </p> <p>Actions taken on dates: 1777-11-28,1777-12-01 </p> <p>Legislative action: Committed and ordered </p> <p>Total signatures: 2 </p> <p>Legislative action summary: Committed, ordered </p> <p>Legal voter signatures (males not identified as non-legal): 2 </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: Mashpee </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: Zachariah Mayhew, missionaries, gospel, churches, religious, sabbath, England, Great Britain, Chilmark, Mashpee, Dukes County, Barnstable County, exemption from taxation, Wendell, Jeffries, Niles </p> <p>Location of the petition at the Massachusetts Archives of the Commonwealth: Massachusetts Archives volume 183, page 277 </p>