PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF POPE AND CONWAY COUNTIES ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Jerry Morrison Email: lwm@genesisnetwork.net ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- This document and the names were transcribed exactly as they appear in the book, spelling and punctuation errors included. Except the names have been reordered into alphabetical order for easier access. From the books "Territorial Papers - Arkansas Territory 1829-36" pages 1080-1082. PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF POPE AND CONWAY COUNTIES [na:hf, 24 Cong., 1 sess.:DS] [September 12, 1835] To the Senate and House of Representatives of Congress We the Undersigned petitioners do petition your Honourable body to grant us a post rout, runing through the counties of Conway Pope and Johnson in the Territory of Arkansas, beginning at Lewisburg on the mail rout from Little Rock to Fort Gibson, thence to Glasses vilage eighteen miles to Hawkins Gregory, thence to Absaloms Sims fifteen miles, thence to Isaac Browns ten miles. Thence to Charles Perrys fifteen miles, thence to E. B. Alstons fifteen miles where it will intersect the mail rout from Little Rock to Fort Gibson, we your humble petitioners respectfully represent to your Honorable body that the greater part of the Citizens living near said rout live twenty or twenty fivemiles from any post office and we labour Under great Inconvenience in consequence thereof, we humbly represent to your honorable body that the rout above designated runs through a dense populated Country and we confidently believe that a mail rout established there will be productive of revenue sufficient to defray all the expences, and we pray that the Gentleman aboved named may be appointed post masters at the several places designated. They being Gentlemen of good morral character, we your petitioners in duty bound will ever pray &c. Sept the 12th 1835 POPE COUNTY Anderson, W. H. Bewley, Anthony Bewley, Benjamin Bewley, R. S. Brewton, Jacob F. Brewton, James G. Brewton, John Dalton, S. M. Dyer, G. H. Eubanks, Lewis Horton, Thomas C. Ingrum, William Langford, Benjamin Langford, Henry Langford, Leander Langford, M. H. Langford, Willis Langford Jr., Benjamin Lewis, Joseph Logan, James W. Nelson, Hugh Rowland, George W. Rowland, John Rowland, W. E. Tackitt, Pleasant Webb, William B. Williams, J. H. Williams, Owen Williamson, Geo. P. Williamson, John Williamson, Robert T. Wilson, James L. Wilson, Robert Wilson, W. A. CONWAY COUNTY Anders, Henry Anders, William Barker, William Beeson, Henderson J. Bewley, John M. Brown, Isaac Brown, John Calahan, Daniel Christy, John Colwell, Hesekial Colwell, John Colwell, Thomas Cone, William Doyal, John Doyal, Robert Doyal, Thomas Doyal, William Dunn, Allen Eubanks, John Eubanks, William Eveants, William Freed, Sampson Freeman, S. B. Gardner, Thomas Gilbreath, Hugh Gilbreath, Milton Gray, John Gregory, Hawkins Griffin, Larking Griffin, Reuben Harris, John D. Hickey, Charles Hickey, John Hickey, W. R. Hickey Jr., James Hickey Sr., James Hoames, Jacup Hodges, Willis Jones, John Jones, Jonathan Jones, William G. Langford, John P. Lasiter, Timothy Lee, Mark Lee, Russell Lee, William J. Maddin, John Maddin, Robert Maddox, Nicholas Maddox, Wilson Many, John Many, Thomas McLeod, Neal Morris, John Newton, Ebenezer Newton, William M. H. Nix, Benjamin Owen, Hugh G. Owen, Joseph A. Paxton, Thomas J. Pearson, Reubin Perry, Charles Pierson, Benonia Pierson, Peter Potter, Lewis Price, John S. Prise, Robert Pulliam, James D. Right, John Roberson, Bery Robertson, John Robertson, Mark Robertson, Stephen Ross, Adam Ross, Robert Rowland, N. B. Sawyers, John Sawyers, William Sims, Absalom Stewart, David K. Stewart, Joseph Stewart, Samuel B. Tedford, William Tumilson, John Wallace, John Webb, Hampton N. Wood, Thomas Wood Jr., Samuel Wood Sr., Samuel Wright, Silus Yeats, John H. [Endorsed] Arkansas Inhabts post route through Conway Pope and Johnson Counties Dec 16. 1835. Referred to Committee Post Office {House Journal, 24 Cong., 1 sess., p. 60.} One hundred & twenty five petitioners.-Ought to be allowed Sevier. P. Office