Petition to the Congress by Citizens of Washington County
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Submitted by: Jerry Morrison
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From the books "Territorial Papers - Arkansas Territory 1829-36"
pages 1138-1139
Note: On the list of signers, there was no way to discern between the
inhabitants of Arkansas Territory and the inhabitants of Missouri. The Names
have been re-ordered into alphabetical order
PETITION TO THE CONGRESS BY CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY
[NA:HF, 24 Cong., 1 sess.:DS]
[Referred December 29, 1835]
To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the
United States in Congress Assembled.
The petition of the undersigned Citizens of Washington County in the
Territory of Arkansas Respectfully represent to your honorable body that
your petitioners labor under great inconvenience for the want of a Mail
rout leading from Fayettville the Seat of Justice of Washington County
A. T. to the Seat of Justice of Barry County Mo. a distance of about
sixty miles-Your petitioners therefore respectfully request your honorable
body to pass a law establishing a Mail Rout from Fayetteville A. T. by
Pelham's farm in Osage Prarie to the Seat of Justice of Barry Co. Mo. and
your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c
A. B. Anthony Anselm Barnes William Barrington
William Berryhill William C. Billingsley Samuel Black
Andrew Blair J. C. Blair John S. Blair
Jonathan Blair Thomas Blair B. Brixey
L. Brodin James Byrnside Julin C. Calhoon
T. M. Campbell B. G. Clark M. H. Clark
Jackson Cogburn J. C. Collins John B. Costa
James M. Crowdrey Edward Cunningham Edwin B. Davidson
George L. Davidson James F. Davidson John S. Davidson
Alfred Dobbs William Dugan John Duncan
Onesimus Evans James Foster J. R. Frane
Robert Goad Benjamin Graham Freeborn Graham
Ira Graham Thomas Hall F. Hardgrove
C. Harris S. O. Harris H. W. Hill
J. M. Hoge Matthew Hubbard P. Hume
D. H. Irby Dioclesion Jackson James Jackson
Hyram A. Johnson Henry Keys David G. Kincaid
J. S. Kincaid William M. Kincaid William T. Larremore
John Lewis William Martin Orlonzo Mattley
Audley G. Maxwell John M. McGarrah William McK Ball (sic)
Giles McKiney David McKisick John W. McKisick
R. H. Mecklin Washington Meeks David Mitchell
Thomas Moreland Elijah Morris A. Nail
Alexander Nail Joseph Nail William Nail
J. D. Parks John Patton William Pelham
Mercer Phelan Finis E. Pyeatt John Ransom
R. W. Reynolds John Rose Enoch Slover
Alexander Smith B. H. Smithson Sehon G. Sneed
John String James M. Sweeney James M. Tuttle
John M. Tuttle Solomon Tuttle Alfred Wallace
George P. Wallace George P. Wallace J. H. Wallace
Thomas Wallace W. S. Wallace Phillip Webel
John West Robert Wetherby Samuel Whitehead
Ambrose G. Williams Thomas Williams H. S. Wilson
John M. Wilson John M. Wilson Samuel Woods
A. Yell
[Endorsed] Arkansas Inhabitants Washington County Post-Fayetteville
December 29, 1835 Referred to Commee Post Office* Mr. Harrison Mail
Route from Fayatteville to Seat of Justice in Barry County Harrison
* House Journal, 24 Cong., 1 sess., p. 110.