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

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