Territorial Papers of the United States, Michigan Territory, 1829-1837: Lenawee Co, Michigan Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Mary Teeter ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgenwebarchives.org *********************************************************************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF MONROE AND LENAWEE COUNTIES [LC:HF, 20 Cong., 1 sess.:DS] Ê Ê[November 1827] Take from the Territorial Papers of the United States, Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter, Volume XI, The Territory of Michigan 1820-1829 Continued, pages, 1134 & 1135. PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF MONROE AND LENAWEE COUNTIES [LC:HF, 20 Cong., 1 sess.:DS] [November 1827] To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled The petition of the Undersigned inhabitants of the Counties of Monroe & Lenawe in the Territory of Michigan-Humbly & respectfully represents-That whereas a bill was reported in the House of Representatives of the last Congress(1) agreeable to the prayer of a petition from the inhabitants of this Territory(2) -For opening and constructing a road from La Plaisance Bay Harbour through the Counties of Monroe & Lenawe by the Villages of Monroe and Tecumseh to intersect the road from Detroit to Chicago(3) at or near the Meridian line-And whereas various opinions are entertained by the inhabitants of the Counties aforesd as well as your petitioners respecting one at least of the intermediate points-Your petitions therefore pray your Honourable Body (for the reasons set forth in the petition above referred to, strengthened as they are by the hostile disposition lately manifested by some of the Indians on our Frontiers) to pass a law for the laying out and constructing said road, leaving the intermediate points to be determined by the Commissioners who may be hereafter appointed in pursuance of said law to lay out said road. And your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray Dated November 1827 Benjamin Davis William Burch John Preston Jun Luther Dorriel Thomas P. Whitney Seth Wells Robert Clark Thos B. Benjamin Levi S. Hamprey Francis Farwell Daniel S. Bacon George Giles John Jermain Morris Wells John Hale Issac Burch Richard Peters Lewis Wells Luther Smith Bengamin Tibbits Joshua Parker Abraham Master Elijah Martin Orrin Burch Horace Harte Alexis Birnett Isaac Lorton Lyman Pease Jesse Wilmott David Bixby Martin Smith Jonathan Horne William Kedzie Elisha S. Robinson Jonas Ray John D. Wood Anthony McKey Noah Norton Daniel Clark A. J. Comstock Benjamin Clark Nathan Felton Lines Huntly Silas Simmons Cornelius A. Stout John Powers Warner Aylsworth Elias Dennis Darius Comstock Nathan Comstock Patrick Hamilton Allen B. Chaffee Joeph Pratt Hervey Bliss Robert Aylsworth George Gile George Scott Adason Burch Abraham West Abram Maston William Brooks Almond Harrison Josiah Baker Samuel Randall Daniel Kelly George Stout Sidney P. Comstock T. B Goff Job S. Comstock Nathan C Tibbits Daniel Smith Allen Tibbits John Gifford G. W. Walker David Wiley Salmon Harrison [Endorsed] Michigan Inhabts of Monroe & Lenawe Road Jan. 28-1828 Refd to the Commee (committee) Roads & Canals Wing 113. Roads & Cans(4) 1. House Journal, 19 Cong., 2 sess., p. 141. No further action in reference to this bill is noted. Cf. Ibid., p. 60, and act approved Mar. 2, 1827 (4 STAT. 231) 2. Nov. 13, 1826, ante, p. 1010. 3. See Cass to Monroe, May 15, 1828, urging the completion of the Detroit-River Rouge section of the Chicago road, and to the Secretary of War, May 25, 1828, enclosing a resolution of the Legislative Council relative to the same (printed, M.P.H.C., XXXXVI, 555-556, from the Schoolcraft Papers, LC). 4. House Journal, 20 Cong., 1 sess., p. 224.