Petition from Samuel Bent and Others, 17 January 1843
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and 41 others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, 17 Jan. 1843; handwriting of ; signatures presumably of petitioners; endorsement in handwriting of ; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.

We the undersigned, inhabitents of the City of , feeling desirous of having the Street opened running on the North line of land & land, runing East through the Widow Batys farm & from thence to the Prairie, in accordance with the report of Your Commitee which the City Councill sent to view & run & lay out on said line.—— We Your humble petitioners pray Your honourable bodey to issue an order to have said Street opened forthwith; because we Your petinoners have no way of getting out to the Praire. therefore we are in duty bound & will ever pray.— January the 17th. 1843.
Joseph G Hovey | |
John Thorp | |
Horace Wild | Thos Winkless |
Benjamin R. Lamb | John Winn |
Daniel M Burbank | William Munjar |
A. A. Timmons | Horace Rawson |
Lee Allred | David Clough |
Alonzo King | Forsyth |
Thom T Munjar | Erastus Dodge |
Jacob Earl | Truman Gilbert |
William Head | Jacob Johnson |
Joseph C. Aldridge | george W, Clyde |
Chester Southworth | Ahiro Young |
James Bracken | Davis Mc.Olney |
Henry Palmer | |
Henry Jolley | Augustus Dodge |
William Brown | Eleazer King Sen |
thommas Franklin | Noah Rogers |
George Thorp | Chandler Rogers |
Eleazer King Jr | Benja. Sweat |
Orlando D Th | Noble Rogers |
Harris St. to be opened.— [p. [1]]
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