To the Honble[Honorable] the General Assembly of the State of Illinois.
We the undersigned petitions, citizens of Sangamon County, respectfully represent to your Honorable Body that the location of a State road1 from Petersburg in Menard County to Berlin in Sangamon County, thence thru New Berlin [to] the Rail Road Depot to Waverly in Morgan County. Your petitioners think that the location of said road would be of great advantage
to the parts of the counties through which it would pass: they therefore pray your
Honorable Body to pass a law establishing said road; and your petitioners as in duty
bound will ever pray &c. &c.[etc. etc.]
| H Yates | Elis Wilcox |
| Wesley Thomas | William Wallace |
| J. C. Payne | Stephen Willot |
| Jno I. [Lowery?] | A W Laurden |
| N. S Torry | Elias Maxwell |
| Charles Hammonds | Jacob Sears |
| Thomas Yates | David Weger |
| A. Foutch | Peter Beers |
| W. A. Scott | Elias [?] |
| Thomas Etherage | John Evans |
| W H Ellis | Henry M. Harmon |
| John Foutch | James H Senter |
| John S. Robinson | William Bidinger |
| Thomas Foutch |
[Fielder Lowe?]
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| Joel Maxcy | |
| P H Smith | Thomas Evans |
| William T Barret | William H McMillan |
| Asa Harding | L. H. Butler |
| Milton Douglass | Samuel Powers |
| Anthony Shuff | William R Tosh ^58^ |
| [El D Dodd?] | |
| Adam [Hauerber?] | |
| Jas T. Hardin | |
| Wm. A. Buter | |
| Jno W Smith | |
| Stephen Butler | |
| O H Rush | |
| A S Harmon | |
| Thos. Pollock | |
| Geo. Crain | |
| William T. Payne | |
| Andrew Scott | |
| Henry Payne | |
| Levi Harmon | |
| Peter Poindexter | |
| Charles S Parker | |
| John D. Bevans | |
| Leander Pusher | |
| Saml Lucket |
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[ docketing
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Petition of citizens of Sangamon & Menard counties for a
state road from Petersburg to Waverly.
Lincoln
Lincoln
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named Harris
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01/09/1840
01/09/1840
[rec?]. & refd to
Sel. Com.[referred to Select Committee]
Jan 9th '40.
Jan 9th '40.
1State roads were those public roads established or designated by the General Assembly
and usually crossed county lines. Only the General Assembly could establish, alter,
or abandon state roads, until 1840 and 1841, when the General Assembly gave counties
the authority to alter or to abandon state roads upon petition by a majority of voters
in the area of the change.
Handwritten Document Signed, 4 page(s), Lincolniana Collection, Illinois State Archives (Springfield, IL)