Petition to the Congress by Inhabitants of Missouri and Arkansas Territory ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- Submitted by: Jerry Morrison Email: lwm@gnww.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. ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- From the books "Territorial Papers - Arkansas Territory 1829-36" pages 1134-1135 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 INHABITANTS OF MISSOURI AND ARKANSAS TERRITORY [NA:HF, 24 Cong., 1 sess.:DS] [Referred December 16, 1835] To the Honarable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled. The petition of the undersigned Citizens of Barry County Missouri and Washington County Arkansas Territory respectfully represent to your honorable body that your petitioners labor under great inconvenience for want of a mail route from Springfield the Seat of Justice of Green Co: Missouri by the head of flat river*to Fayetteville the Seat of Justice of Washington County Arkansas Territory, a distance of one hundred miles- Your petitioners represent that by establishing the above described mail route the interests of the people will be greatly advanced, and the funds of the Department increased.- Your petitioners therefore respectfully request your honorable body to pass a law establishing the above described Mail route and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &- John Allen Edmon Barnes John O. Berton Hiram Chambers Ciciro J. Corder Emilius G. Corder John Cornelison B. S. Durham James M. Durham John Durham Jonathan Durham Nelson Durham P. Fane John Finney John Freeman Joseph Freeman Israel Gable Samuel Galloway Charles Hadock William Hadock Eriel Halbert Abram Hambleton Benjamin Hamblton Jesse King Jesse King Mat. King Willis Lane Jon G. Lock Jonas G. Lock Larkin Lock Richard Lock Samuel Lock John Logan William Martain L. B. Mason Danil Mayes John Mayes Alexander McGlothlin Price McMurtry William McMurtry John Meeks Meriet Meeks Morgan Meeks Suddeth Meeks Washington Meeks William Meeks Job. R. Monds John C. Monds J. Morris Jackson Morrison Joseph Morrison Elias Oldham Larkin Pain Joseph Porter James Renfro John Rich Jeremiah Riddle Francis Rose John Rose John Shannon George Shelley William Snider Andrew J. Vaughan George W. Vaughan Samuel Vaughan James Washbourn Josiah Washbourn William Washbourn John Washburn Samuel Washburn H. Willeson [Endorsed] Arkansas-Inhabitants Post from Washington County to Missouri-Petition for a Mail route-Dec. 16. 1835. Referred to Commee Post Office Sevier 69. Petitioners & it is believed ought to be allowed. From W. Co. A.T. to Springfield Mo. Post road from Washington County to Missouri Sevier 237 Post * Now shown on the map as Flat Creek, a tributary of White River