Petition
of Jones Co Mississippi, 1822
Record Group 47 / Legislative Papers, Box 17
To the honourable the General Assembly of the State of Mississippi
to convene at the town of Jackson on the fourth Monday in December
1822. The Petitioners of the undersigned Citizens of Covington County
respectfully sheweth that your petitioners labour under intolerable
grievances: For that whereas, the said County of Covington is of
the most inconvenient and unreasonable extent - comprehending within
its extended boundaries an expanse of county amply sufficient for
two constitutional counties. We believe that the area designated
by the constitution is, generally, the most eligible extent for
a county:
- But that your petitioners should be necessitated to suffer the
many inconveniences resulting from a residence in a county the enlarged
boundaries of which include a tract of country of more than double
that extent, is a burthen to which we cannot submit with silence.
It is a duty we owe to ourselves to present our grievance before
you. We sensibly feel these grievances. And a removal of them would
be of unspeakable advantage to the county. All parts of the county
most cordially concur with the measure. It is not the selfish request
of a few interested individuals. It is the prayer of a county which
is severely suffering innumerable disadvantages and hardships arising
from the extensive dimensions of our County.
We therefore pray your honourable body to remove our grievance by
passing a law to divide our said county and form a new county of
a part thereof. And we your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever
pray.
Norvell ROBERTSON Jun. / John HITE Angus McINNIS / Norvell ROBERTSON
Sen. / Albert HITE / William McCLELLAN / William HERRINGTON
Jun. Reuben PRICE / David SCARBOROUGH / John TARBURTON
/ Elbert WOOD / Frederick CROSS Junr. / Silas STEVENS Sen. / Allin
MURDOCK / James TAYLOR / Lewis PEARCE Sen/ John MORRIS / John FLAGG
/ Lewis PEARCE Jun. / Jas. TATE / Francis SEARLE / Joshua NEWTON
/ Ewin SMITH / Thomas PAGE Sen. / George BAYLIS / Calvin SUMNER
/ A. STEWART / George P. SMITH / Danil WINDHAM/ Thomas PAGE Junr.
/ Joshua SMITH / John SHOWS / Henry PAGE / Oliver M. SMITH / Willis
WINDHAM / Willis PAGE / John McCORMICK / John RUSH / Jacob PAGE
/ Wm. McCORMICK / Thomas Loveless MOTT / William WEEK/ John LIGHTSEY
/ Isaac HERRINGTON / William COOSEY John PARKER
/ Adam SHOWS / Peter COULTER / Wm. JUDGE / John SCRIVINER / Allin
HADIN / Micajah HARGROVE / Seaborn WADE / Drury BURGE / Absalom
LOPER / John SHOWS Sen. / John L. REID / Peter LOPER / Henry WAID
/ Hughey McNEERS / Zachariah BLACKLEDGE / Daniel SHOTS (marked out)
/ Daniel McNEAL Jr. / illegible name / Francis WILLIAMSON / John
CARILEE / illegible name / Reuben WATTS / William BONDS / illegible
name / John B. LOWE / Jesse LEE / William PRINE / Luke NORRIS /
Henry LUMPKINS / Jesse SCRIVINER / Stephen DAMPIER / John HARVEY
/ William COULTER / Daniel YATES / William MILES / Evin HARRY /
Daniel McINNIS Senr. / Joshua HERRING / Daniel McINNIS Jun. / Alexander
McCLOUD / Jesse HEDGEPETH / Seaborn JUDD / John GRAHAM / Archibald
GRAHAM |
Generation 4 continued
Mississippi
Kinfolk