US GenWeb Notice: In keeping with our policy of providing free information on the Internet, data may be freely used by non-commercial entities, as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages cannot be reproduced in any format for profit or other presentation. File Compiled and Submitted by Sherry Herrington , JONES COUNTY, MISSISSIPPI 1822 PETITION Reference: Record Group 47 (Legislative Papers), box 17, Year 1822, Mississippi Dept. of Archives and History, Jackson, Mississippi. To the honourable the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi to convene at the town of Jackson on the fourth Monday in December 1822. The Petitioners of the undersigned Citizens of Covington County respectfully sheweth that your petitioners labour under intolerable grievances: For that whereas, the said County of Covington is of the most inconvenient and unreasonable extent - comprehending within its extended boundaries an expanse of county amply sufficient for two constitutional counties. We believe that the area designated by the constitution is, generally, the most eligible extent for a county: - But that your petitioners should be necessitated to suffer the many inconveniences resulting from a residence in a county the enlarged boundaries of which include a tract of country of more than double that extent, is a burthen to which we cannot submit with silence. It is a duty we owe to ourselves to present our grievance before you. We sensibly feel these grievances. And a removal of them would be of unspeakable advantage to the county. All parts of the county most cordially concur with the measure. It is not the selfish request of a few interested individuals. It is the prayer of a county which is severely suffering innumerable disadvantages and hardships arising from the extensive dimensions of our County. We therefore pray your honourable body to remove our grievance by passing a law to divide our said county and form a new county of a part thereof. And we your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray. Norvell ROBERTSON Jun. John HITE Angus McINNIS Norvell ROBERTSON Sen. Albert HITE William McCLELLAN William HERRINGTON Jun. Reuben PRICE (?) David SCARBOROUGH John TARBURTON Elbert WOOD Frederick CROSS Junr. Silas STEVENS Sen. Allin MURDOCK James TAYLOR Lewis PEARCE Sen. John MORRIS John FLAGG Lewis PEARCE Jun. Jas. TATE Francis SEARLE Joshua NEWTON Ewin SMITH Thomas PAGE Sen. George BAYLIS Calvin SUMNER A. STEWART George(?) P. SMITH Danil WINDHAM Thomas PAGE Junr. Joshua SMITH John SHOWS Henry PAGE Oliver M. SMITH Willis WINDHAM Willis PAGE John McCORMICK John RUSH Jacob PAGE Wm. McCORMICK Thomas Loveless MOTT William WEEK John LIGHTSEY Isaac HERRINGTON William COO-SEY John PARKER Adam SHOWS Peter COULTER Wm. JUDGE John SCRIVINER Allin HADIN Micajah HARGROVE Seaborn WADE Drury BURGE Absalom LOPER John SHOWS Sen. John L. REID Peter LOPER Henry WAID Hughey McNEERS Zachariah BLACKLEDGE Daniel SHOTS (marked out) Daniel McNEAL Jr. illegible name Francis WILLIAMSON John CARILEE illegible name Reuben WATTS William BONDS illegible name John B. LOWE Jesse LEE William PRINE Luke NORRIS Henry LUMPKINS Jesse SCRIVINER Stephen DAMPIER John HARVEY William COULTER Daniel YATES William MILES Evin HARRY Daniel McINNIS Senr. Joshua HERRING Daniel McINNIS Jun. Alexander McCLOUD Jesse HEDGEPETH Seaborn JUDD John GRAHAM Archibald GRAHAM Number 89 END OF RECORD