Petition from Samuel Bent and Others, 17 January 1843
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Source Note
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.
Document Transcript
We the undersi[g]ned, inhabitents of the City of , feeling d[e]sirous of having the Street opened running on the North line of land & land, runing East through the Widow Batys farm & from thence to the Prair[i]e, 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 is[s]ue 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 | [illegible] Forsyth |
| Thom T Munjar | Erastus Dodge |
| Jacob Earl | Truman Gilbert |
| William Head | Jacob Johnson |
| Joseph C. Aldridge | g[e]orge W, Clyde |
| Chester Southworth | Ahiro Young |
| James Bracken | Davis Mc.Olney |
| Henry Palmer | |
| Henry Jolley | A[ugustus] 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]]
[page [2] blank] [p. [2]]
Footnotes
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Signatures of petitioners.
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Endorsement, written sideways in the left margin, in handwriting of James Sloan.
