Petition from Samuel Bent and Others, 12 December 1844
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and twenty-one others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, 12 Dec. 1844; handwriting of ; signatures of petitioners; dockets in handwriting of unidentified scribe and ; endorsement in handwriting of ; two pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
To the honorable city council of .
We the undersigned petitioners, desirous for the wellfare and public good of the city of and the surrounding country, would humbly pray that your honorable body will either grant to , who now has mills in operation, to be legally constituted a Successor to Joseph Smith in bulding a Dam in the , or to grant him power to continue his dam, already erected, so far into the Stream, not interfering with said grant, as the navigation of said , as shall enable him to propel Michinery for factories and other purposes and as in duty bound we will ever pray.
Dec 12 1844.
| Freeborn Demill | |
| Jos G. Harvey | |
| Samuel Williams | Levi Doane |
| Augustus Stafford | Chancy Peck |
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