Burke-Coffee-Clinch County GaArchives History - Letters .....Petition of Inhabitants of Burke County GA 1789 January 28 1789
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Date: January 28, 1789 
Petition of the inhabitants of Burke County, [Georgia], 1789 Jan. 28, to the 
speaker and house of assembly
[of Georgia] / William Allen ... 

Summary: This document dated January 28, 1789 is a petition from the 
inhabitants of the Rocky Comfort 
settlement of Burke County, Georgia to the Georgia Assembly complaining of 
having to send payment for 
their specific tax, ostensibly for support of soldiers fighting unnamed 
Indians, to either Waynesboro or Buckhead
 instead of keeping it in upper Burke County. 
repository: Hargrett Rare Book and Manuscript Library, The University of 
Georgia Libraries collection. 


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SOUTHEASTERN  NATIVE  AMERICAN  DOCUMENTS   1730 - 1842
Document: TCC939

 
PETITION OF BURKE COUNTY GEORGIA
28, JAN  1789

To the Honourable [Honorable] the Speaker and House of Assembly:  William  Allen

The Petition Humbly Sheweth that we the Inhabitants of Rockey Comfortand the 
upper part of 
Burke County do Labour [Labor] under a Grieveance [Grievance] in Regard of 
Sending our Specific 
Tax to Waynsboroughor to Buckheadwhich is (30 or forty miles from the before 
mencion,d [mentioned] 
upper End of Burke which in all probability for are to be dispos'd [disposed] 
of for the Support of our Army 
against the Indians and as the before Mencion,d [Mentioned] distance is a 
Contrary way from Where 
in all probability it will be wanting,
Last year we paid in Rockey Comfort Settlement and it was Brought from near the 
before Mencion,d 
[Mentioned] distance here you may be well Assur,d [Assured] we do not by this 
presume to oppose 
the Laws of our Country or Refuse to pay watever [whatever] the Legislator 
[Legislature] Should 
Inflict on us but Considering it So Very disadvantageous to our Inhabitants and 
Noways advanceing  
the publick [advancing the public] Interest we thought it most advisable to 
petition to you on the 
Ocation Hopeing [Occasion Hoping] your Honourable [Honorable] Body will take it 
into Consideration 
and in Consequence of which we may have permision [permission] to give in where 
may be Considerd 
[Considered] Most advantageous for publick [public] & private Interest all 
which we Humbly Submit to 
Your Judicious Judgement [Judgment] and waits in Expectation that you will 
Condesend [Condescend] 
to grant the [deleted: [illegible]] Request of your Hbl [Humble] peticoners 
[petitioners]
& we will Ever pray 

[Signed] William allen 
[Signed] Soloman Wifleay 1 
[Signed] [unclear: Thos Tonnell] 2 
[Signed] Wm. [William] A. Burton 3 
[Signed] Blass: [Blassingame] Harvey Junr [Junior] 4 
[Signed] Thos [Thomas] Drake 5 
[Signed] Tom. Jones 6 
[Signed] Blasg [Blassingame] Harvey 7 
[Signed] Robert Spullock 
[Signed] Tandy C. Key 
[Signed] John Ford 
[Signed] Wm. [William] Blackmon 
[Signed] William Pollard 
[Signed] Elijah Bragg 
[Signed] [unclear: Walthall] Burton 
[Signed] D Harris 8 
[Signed] Robert French 9 
[Signed] Pollard 10 
[Signed] Thos [Thomas] Harvey 11 
[Signed] Augustus Easter 12 
[Signed] Jno [John] Darbey 13 
[Signed] [unclear: Champness] Terry 14 
[Signed] Henry Cocks 15 
[Signed] Saml. [Samuel] Ratilliff 16 
[Signed] [unclear: Champness] Terry 17 
[Signed] Saml. [Samuel] Boasman 18 
[Signed] Chapmon Talor 19 
[Signed] Nicholas Currey 20 
[Signed] Stepen Morgan 21 
[Signed] Charnol Hitower 22 
[Signed] Morris Murphrey 23 
[Signed] [unclear: Peter Kolb] -- 24 
[Signed] Elisabeth Scott 25 
[Signed] Saml. [Samuel] Andrew 26 
[Signed] John Roughton 27 
[Signed] Wm. [William] Clarke -- 28 
[Signed] [deleted: ] 29 
[Signed] Wm. [William] Thomas 30 
[Signed] John [unclear: Moreland] 31 
[Signed] John Dennis 32 
[Signed] Cader Vining 33 
[Signed] Thomas Clark 34 
[Signed] Wm [William] [unclear: Rowe] 35 
[Signed] Jesse Vining 36 
[Signed] James Hodges 37 
[Signed] Abram Dennis 38 
[Signed] John Martin 39 
[Signed] Matthew Carswell 40 

Petition 
Sundry Inhabitants 
Burke County to the Legislature and 
referred to this Board 
Order taken 
28th Jany [January] 1789.
Jan. [January] 28, 1789
This Petition is referred by the Legislature to the order of the Executive as 
they are fully 
empowered by the Act of Assembly for laying a Specific tax to appoint places 
for the 
reception of the Specifics

[Signed] Jas. [James] M Simmons Clk. G A [Clerk General Assembly]



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