Subject: Gadsden Co., FL 1831 Petition - 50 names From: Mary Lou Lisenbe Date: March 16, 1998 The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volume 24 The Territory of Florida 1828-1834 MEMORIAL TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF GADSDEN AND LEON COUNTIES December 19, 1831 To the Senate & House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress Assembled The Memorial of the Undersigned Citizens of Gadsden & Lion Counties, Middle Florida Respectfully represent-- That they are situated in a beautiful & fertile part of the Territory, well adapted to the Cultivation of Sugar, and that the said section of Country is intersected by two bold streams, called Ocklockny and Little River, the navigation of which may with a reasonable expenditure be so improved as greatly to facilitate the transportation of our produce to market, particularly the article of Sugar, the cultivation of which must be abandoned by us untilwe are enabled to convey it by Water to our sea ports-- We therefore respectfully solicit an apropriation to assist us in clearing out these Rivers-- Your Memorialists could multiply topics to urge a compliance with their request, by they forbear; cherishing a confidence that Congress will not be insensible to the claims of a large population in this particular section of the Territory, to share in some degree in those aids that have been, and still continue to be so boutifully dispensed From the public funds East & West of us-- From Such estimates as we have been enabled to make the Sum of Fifteen thousand dollars would afford the relief prayed for by your Memorialists-- Nicholas Grubb Isaac Coe Wm A. Coe Robert L. Harrison B Croome Jona Robinson Jas Cameron John W. Smith Ptolemy Jernigan J H Dunlap Benj. B. Hawks H. B. Croom. M Harvey John Lines A. A. Beach Thomas McAll C. C. Fletcher John N. Hardgrove Sharrod McCall L & M. A. Armistead Geo D. Cornwell Wm Henry Fitts-- M. McHan George Costin W. M. Gilliland John P. Neale William Forbes Ro, S, Miller Wm Vunan Isaac Nathans R. H. Stewart R. C. Lester O. W. Pittman M Blue Jno H Jones Henry Dearborn Wm Smith Daniel McLauchlin Thomas Preston Jr S F Jones William. D. Jones David G. Raney M. B. Haley William Dickson M. M. Caswell James N. Wilson Archibald Smith, Jr H. Wilder David C Patterson D. Ochiltree Ira Sanborn W D, Harrison Jordan Beck William Smith ==== SCROOTS Mailing List ==== Go To: #, A, B, C, D, E, F, G, H, I, J, K, L, M, N, O, P, Q, R, S, T, U, V, W, X, Y, Z, Main |