Petition from Stephen Winchester and Others, circa 11 March 1843
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and 71 others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, ca. 11 Mar. 1843; unidentified handwriting; signatures of petitioners; endorsements in handwriting of ; notation in handwriting of ; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
To the Honorable City Council of
We, the undersigned, Petitioners (desirous of promoting the general good of and vicnity) would represent to your Honorable Body the inconvenience under which the People in this part of the City labour, on account of being shut out from the on the South West, and otheres, by being closed in from the Prairie, on the East, to hope you will grant this Petition, which is to order Winchister Street opened from Parley street South to the . And by so doing benefit those whose land it intersects, and confer a favour on the Petitioners. As in duty bound will Ever Pray
| Harmon Cutler | |
| Stephen Winchester Jr | |
| Francillo Durfey | |
| Daniel Carter | |
| Levi Fifield | Elisha Edwards |
| E M Kimball | H. Tate. |
| Chancy Gaylord | George Scholes |
| Guy C Barnum | |
| Job. V Barnum | Benjamin Brown |
| J. S. Johnston | Lorenzo Brown |
| Newman G. Blodgett | James Flanigan |
| Stephen Hales | |
| Jared Porter | |
| Stephen Hales Senr | Joseph Huthngson |
| James McClelan | Joseph Brotherton |
| John Creig |
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