Reaffirmation of Amity Township Formation Petition (1744); Philadelphia, 
Pennsylvania 

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                  Amity Township Formation Petition 1744
                              reaffirming 1719

To the honorable Justices of ye Peace at ye Court of Quarter Sessions held at 
Philada. March ye 3d 1744, the petition of ye Inhabitants of Amity humbley 
sheweth that about twenty fives years since the inhabitants of that 10:000 acres 
of land lyings up Schuylkill, called ye Sweeds Tract, requested this court that 
they might be erected into a Township under ye name of Amity.  Which was 
accordingly done and a Constable & other necessary officers appointed.  But 
since that time we have made search in ye Records of this court and cannot find 
that ever it was recorded.  By reason whereof we have suffered great hardship 
and they are like still to continue by reason of Large Bodys of Lands etc. that 
by without ye bounds of ye said 10,000 acres.  Not as yet erected any township, 
and others said to be within ye laid bounds which we presume are not.  Wherefore 
your Petitioners Humbley pray that you would be pleased to ye former order 
draught thereof being hereunto annexed.  And your Petitioners as in duty bound 
shall ever pray, etc.

Marcus Hulings
Gilbert Dehart
Simon Dehart
William Nelson
John Campbell
Owen Richard
John Bell
John Bansfield
David Campbell
Wm Huling
Stepahn miller
Walter Campbell
Robert Patterson
Joseph Boone
Thomas Dalmar
Owen Williams
Marcus Hulings
Jacob Warren
Ellis Griffith
William Paine
Isaac Wiseman
Andrew Sadowski
Nicholas Scull
Willm Bird
John Dunckley
Michael Melinger
Daniel Womelsdorf
johan Dietrich Greiner
Daniel Ludwig
John Sands

Jacob Wawer
John Long
Peter Weaver
Windeel Landreas
Micahel Trum
Charles Megru
Aliz Sander
N B Bunly
Hans Jacob Rot
Abijah Sands
Jonas Jones
Mounce Jones
Henry Bell
Peter Jones