Conway County, AR - Petition ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Jerry Morrison Email: 12 Apr 1999 ---------------------------------------------------------------------- USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free Information on the Internet, data may be used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or for presentation by other persons or organizations. Files may be printed or copied for Personal use only. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for purposes other than stated above must obtain the written consent of the file contributor. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- United States Territorial Papers Vol XXI Arkansas Territory 1829-1836, Page 672-673 PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF CONWAY COUNTY ARKANSAS TERRITORY Conway County, Jan. 14th 1833. To the Hon. The Senate & House of Representatives in Congress, We, the citizens of Conway County, A.T., being situated in a section of country, through which no mail passes, and labouring under all the disadvantages of sending, at least, forty five miles for our letters and newspapers, are constrained to petition your Hon. Body to relieve us of our difficulties by establishing a mail rout through our county. It is the prayer of your petitioners that this rout be established from Batesville on White River to Lewisburg on the Arkansas River, thought to be one hundred & ten miles.- Your petitioners also pray, that a Post Office be established on the said rout on the south fork of Little Red River, sixty five miles from Batesville, and that it be called Pleasant Valley Post Office. And your petitioners further pray that Dr. Samuel Smith be appointed Post Master, and that we receive the mail weekly. Note:(This list of signatures has been re-ordered into alphabetic order) John Ake John Mc Callister William Ake John Mc Callister Roderick Bair Joseph McCallister James Baird Samuel G Mchenry Russell Bates Miles Morrison John Bearden Alfred Musick Bardaman Bennett William Musick John H. Bertram John Null Hugh Boils Phillip Null Samuel Brickey Valentine Null Andrew Carothers William Null Thos Cornwall John Peall John B. Craig F. O. Powell Timothy Culp Allen Prior James Fears George Risner Andrew Fewget John Risner James Forest William Risner Williamm Garner James Shuemake Daniel Griggs Samuel Smith Luke Grimes Mark Weaver Russel Hensly James Webster Clabourn Lewis John Weldon F. M. McCallister Le Roy Williams ----- Answered Feb. 26, 1833 (NA,JD, Sol Treas. Lets. Reed.), in which the account was returned for a correction of spelling of DuVal's first name. [Endorsed] Arkansas Inhabitants Conway Co. Post Petition for a post route, from Batesville via Little Red-river settlements, to Lewisburgh in Conway County in Arkansas-Feb. 25. 1833 Referred to Committee Post Office 64 Sevier