Petition to the Congress by Citizens of Washington County ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ---------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 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.