Petition from George W. Crouse and Others, circa 9 March 1844
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Source Note
George W. Crouse and 168 others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, ca. 9 Mar. 1844; unidentified handwriting; signatures of petitioners; docket in handwriting of ; endorsements in handwriting of and ; six pages; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
Document Transcript
To the Honerable Mayor. Alderman & Councillors of the City of — Greeting
The undersigned citizens of said respectfully represent that they are deeply interested in the improvement and advancement of said — that the great desideratum of your petioners is to promote the prosperity of said — to enhance the value therof and to facilitate its progress to distinction and wealth—
Your petioners would therefore most respectfully represent to your Honerable Body that they deem it essential to the prosperity of said — to the convenience and happiness of the Citizens thereof to have Knight Street laid out and opened through to the Eastern Boundery line of said and to pray your Honorable Body will in its wisdom so ordain— as your petitioners in duty bound will ever pray
| Geo W. Crouse | |
| J[ames] M. Flack | |
| William Spotswoods | John Bills |
| A. Simpson | Jacob Shumaker |
| Daniel Curry | |
| Issac Houston | R. A. Goodwin |
| Lyman Hinman | |
| Joseph Busby | William Green |
| Henry Denison | |
| Anson Call | B. H. Young. |
[p. [1]]
March 9, 1844
Petition to open Knight Street
<not granted> [p. [2]]
| James Beavan | Augustus Dodge |
| Asher Baldwin | S[amuel] M. Marr |
| John Spotswood | James Eames |
| W[illiam] W. Higbee | |
| John Kelley | |
| Miles Anderson | Willard Miller |
| Rob. Johnson | Henry L Cook |
| Neihum Knight | Levi Empy |
| Samuel Driggs | |
| Cheney Harvey | H Hoagland |
| Justin T Merrill | |
| O. Y. Hutchinson | |
| Chas Price | |
| Walter Clark | |
| Andrew Ballantyne | Pharas Wells |
| William Bell | Edson Barney |
| Alexander Hill Juner | M[oses] J Gardner |
| Milton Beebe | |
| George Wm. Fowler | |
| A. E. Miles | D Markham |
| Joseph Parmer | A Mills |
| J C Blandin | P. C. Merrill |
| Wm. H Smith Jun | J |
| John Y Green | Amos S Chase |
| Alanson Burgess | |
| Henry Hills | Edwin R Cutler |
| Blakely B Anderson | Benj Soule |
| Jas A Eastin | Jerome Bishop |
| Ebenezer Jennings | |
| E C Hodges | A Colton |
| Sterling G Griggs | |
| Andrew Smith | |
| Dustin Arny | |
| Calvin P. Williams | Nelson, Millet |
[p. [3]]
[p. [4] blank] [p. [4]]
| Wm Midgate | |
| Wm W Dryer | T S Lanyon |
| John Ritchie | J G. Sheffield |
| Thos. Kenton | Frs Pullin |
| Jacob Morris | William Hartley |
| J P Hillman | A. M. Harding |
| John Fordham | |
| Archibald Montgomery | |
| P Colton | |
| Seth Palmer | Ira Clothier |
| C[harles] Warner | Christian Southworth |
| Thos S Edwards | Amos Lowen |
| George Moore | William Allen |
| John M Chidester | J B Stoddard |
| Joseph H Foster | |
| Edward W Ivins | |
| R, D, Sprague | |
| R. H. Loomis | |
| G. Bigelow | Jesse Nichols |
| Wandle Mace | Merit Rockwell |
| James Bird | B W Rolfe |
| Jeremiah Mobey | S. Pinkham |
| C. D. Stevens | |
| Hiram Spencer | |
| Welcome Chapman | David Brinton |
| Wm Holdridge | |
| R. A. Russell |
[p. [5]]
[p. [6] blank] [p. [6]]
| Josephus Hatch | Daniel D. Williams |
| Jeremiah Hatch Jr | |
| William T. Haight | |
[p. [7]]
[p. [8] blank] [p. [8]]
| Raymond Clark | Henry Packard |
| John M. Hill | Robt Pierce |
| A. W. Whitney | |
| James Bird | Sam Gully |
| E[lijah] Newman | Warren Smith |
| H M Alixandria | |
| D B Haight | |
| T Boardman | |
| Asahel Perry | |
| Charles F. Gill | |
| William Gore |
[p. [9]]
The petition to which <this> is to be appended will be found at S M Marrs store the petition is simply to open Knight Street through to the corporation line on the Eastern Boundary of this
<March 9th 1844>
<Read &, referred to the committee>
<Reported>
<Unfavorable— and report accptd— June 10 1844,— to be laid on the tab[l]e indefenetaly—> [p. [10]]
Footnotes
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Signatures of petitioners.
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Docket in handwriting of Thomas Bullock.
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Endorsement in handwriting of Thomas Bullock.
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Unidentified handwriting resumes.
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Endorsement in handwriting of Willard Richards.
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Endorsement in handwriting of Willard Richards.
