1831 GADSDEN COUNTY PETITION SIGNERS

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                GADSDEN COUNTY PETITION SIGNERS - 1831


             The Territorial Papers of the United States
            Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter
                             Volume 24
    
                    The Territory of Florida
                             1828-1834

MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF GADSDEN AND LEON COUNTIES

December 19, 1831

To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America 
in Congress Assembled

The Memorial of the Undersigned Citizens of Gadsden & Lion Counties, 
Middle Florida Respectfully represent--
  That they are situated in a beautiful & fertile part of the Territory, 
well adapted to the Cultivation of Sugar, and that the said section of 
Country is intersected by two bold streams, called Ocklockny and Little 
River, the navigation of which may with a reasonable expenditure be so 
improved as greatly to facilitate the transportation of our produce to 
market, particularly the article of Sugar, the cultivation of which must 
be abandoned by us until we are enabled to convey it by Water to our sea 
ports--   We therefore respectfully solicit an apropriation to assist us 
in clearing out these Rivers-- Your Memorialists could multiply topics to 
urge a compliance with their request, by they forbear; cherishing a 
confidence that Congress will not be insensible to the claims of a large 
population in this  particular section of the Territory, to share in some 
degree in those  aids that have been, and still continue to be so 
boutifully dispensed from the public funds East & West of us--   From Such 
estimates as we have been enabled to make the Sum of Fifteen thousand 
dollars would afford the relief prayed for by your Memorialists--

Nicholas Grubb
Isaac Coe
Wm A. Coe
Robert L. Harrison
B Croome
Jona Robinson
Jas Cameron
John W. Smith
Ptolemy Jernigan
J H Dunlap
Benj. B. Hawks
H. B. Croom.
M Harvey
John Lines
A. A. Beach
Thomas McAll
C. C. Fletcher
John N. Hardgrove
Sharrod McCall
L & M. A. Armistead
Geo D. Cornwell
Wm Henry Fitts--
M. McHan
George Costin
W. M. Gilliland
John P. Neale
William Forbes
Ro, S, Miller
Wm Vunan
Isaac Nathans
R. H. Stewart
R. C. Lester
O. W. Pittman
M Blue
Jno H Jones
Henry Dearborn
Wm Smith
Daniel McLauchlin
Thomas Preston Jr
S F Jones
William. D. Jones
David G. Raney
M. B. Haley
William Dickson
M. M. Caswell
James N. Wilson
Archibald Smith, Jr
H. Wilder
David C Patterson
D. Ochiltree
Ira Sanborn
W D, Harrison 
Jordan Beck
William Smith