Petition of William Thomas and Others to Thomas Carlin, [April 1839]1
The undersigned would respectfully recommend to the Governor of this State, the appointment of Joseph Duncan, who is well known to have ever been an ardent and efficient friend of the Illinois and Michigan Canal, as a suitable and qualified person to negotiate the sale of the State Bonds authorised
to be sold for the purpose of constructing the Illinois and Michigan Canal.
1This recommendation was later published in the Quincy Whig, from which this transcription was taken. Governor Thomas Carlin appointed Democratic
former Governor John Reynolds to negotiate the loan in London. Duncan, the Governor
immediately previous to Carlin, was a Whig.
2This could be either Richard Murphy of Lake County or Richard G. Murphy of Perry County, both of whom served in the Illinois House of Representatives in 1839, and both of whom were Democrats.
Copy of Printed Transcription, 1 page(s), Quincy Whig (Quincy, IL), 13 April 1839, 1:7.