Search billions of records on Ancestry.com

GOAD GENEALOGY- Documents and Abstracts
Home Document Index

A Petition to Congress For Mail; Referred 12-29-1835

The Territorial Papers of the United States, Volume XXI, The Territory of Arkansas 1829-8136, Continued76

PETITION TO CONGRESS BY CITIZENS OF WASHINGTON COUNTY

[NA:HF, 24 Cong., 1 sess.:DS]

[ReferredDecember 29, 1835]To the Honorable, the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled .

The petition of the undersigned Citizens of Washington County in the Territory of Arkansas Respectfully represent to your honorable body that your petitioners labor under great inconvenience for the want of a Mail rout leading from Fayetteville the Seat of Justice of Washington County A. T. to the Seat of Justice of Barry County Mo. a distance of a bout sixty miles-- Your petitioners therefore respectfully request your honorable body to pass a law establishing a Mail Rout from Fayetteville A. T. by Peiham's farm in Osage Prairie to the Seat of Justice of Barry Co. Mo. and your petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray &c

Wm Pelbam
Wm McK Ball
A.Yell
A B Anthony
Onesimus Evans
J. M. Hoge
Wm Dugan
L Brodin
P Hume
Wm T Larremore
B. H. Smithson
John M. Wilson
Anseim Barnes
James Foster
William M. Kincaid
Washington Meeks
J C Collins
Elijah Morris
M. H.. Clark
R. W. Reyno1ds
Jas. Byrnside
J.S. Kincaid
W.S. Wallace
Mfred Wallace
Sehon G. Sneed
John Mcgarrah
Thos Hall
Bs Brixey
Matthew Hubbard
T.M. Campbell
John String
'I'homas Williams
David G Kincaid
Ira Graham
Alfred Dobbs
D H Irby
Henry Keys
Freeborn Graham
Benjamin Graham
John Patton
John Ransom
Giles McKiney
H.S. Wilson
Mercer Phelan
B.G. Clark
Robt Wetherby
Orlonzo Mattley
H W Hill
Jas. M. Sweeney
Hyram A. Johnson
John Duncan
John B. Costa
James M. Cowdrey

Alexander Smith
Wm Nail
S.O. Harris
C. Harris
Thos Moreland
John Lewis
John S Blair
Wm Barrington
Wm Martin
Philipp Webel
John West
John S. Davidson
James F Davidson
Saml Woods
J.C. Blair
Samuel Black
Andrew Blair
David Mitchell
Samuel Whitehead
Ambrose G. Williams
Dioclesion Jackson
Thomas Blair
James Jackson
Johnathan Blair
George L Davidson
John Rose
Finis E. Pyeatt
Audley G Maxwell
J.D. Parks
Wm. C. Billingsley
Geo P Wallace
Thos Wallace
F.Hardgrove
J.H. Wallace
Geo P. Wallace
Wm. Berryhill
Edwin B. Davidson
J.R Frane
Enoch Slover
Jackson Cogburn
Julin C. Calhoon
Joseph Nail
A.Nail
Edward Cunningham
David McKisick
John W. Mc Kisick
R.H. Mecklin
Alexr Nail
Robert Goad
Solomon Tuttle
James M Tuttle
John M. Tuttle

[Endorsed] Arkansas Inbabts Wasbington Cty Post--Fayetteville Decr 29.1835 Refd to Commee Post Office12 Mr Harrison Mail route from Fayetteville to Seat of Justice in Barry Co Harrison

12House Journal, 24 Cong., 1 sess., p.110.


email: 

Copyright © 1999 - 2003 by Michael Goad. All rights reserved.
The pages of this site may be freely linked to. Information from this site may be freely used by individuals. None of the following may be duplicated without consent:

  • The entire compilation and arrangement of information located on this web site or any major portion thereof.
  • The HTML Code for any page or major portion thereof.
  • Any original graphics unless otherwise stated.

The copyrights of any contributor's material remains with the contributor