Petition from John Burscough and Others, 29 December 1841
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Source Note
John Burscough, Lewis Robison, , William Casper, John Marbury, , William Blackhurst, Elisha Pace, and , Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, 29 Dec. 1841; handwriting of John Burscough; signatures of petitioners; endorsements in handwriting of and ; dockets in handwriting of John Burscough and ; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
Document Transcript
Dec 29 1841
City
To the Honerable Alderman and Councillors In Council assembled
Gentleman we your Petitioners Pray your Honerable Body and make known to you that the Street runing 7 rods from north <of> the South East Corner of Sec 6 west to the Greately injures our intrest by runing through our Houses Cutting up Several lots and parsals of land and would be to the intrest of your petitioners to run said Street on the Section line and would be no injury to the City Plot to make a teer of fractional Blocks an on the extreem South Part of the
And we your petitioners <in duty bound> will ever pray
| John Burscough | Petitioners Names |
| Lewis Robison | |
| Wm Casper | |
| John Marbury | |
| Wm Blackhurst | |
| Elisha Pace | |
[p. [1]]
Petition to the City Council
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<Presented & referred>
<Jan.y. 15th 42.>
Dec 29. 1841 [p. [2]]
Footnotes
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Signatures of petitioners.
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Docket in handwriting of John Burscough.
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Endorsement in handwriting of John C. Bennett.
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Endorsement in handwriting of James Sloan.
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Docket in handwriting of Leo Hawkins.
