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Subject: [RHEA-L] Crittendon co. AR Petition
Date: Sat, 4 Dec 1999 11:38:55 EST

[December 31, 1831] PETITION TO THE POSTMASTER GENERAL BY INHABITANTS OF CRITTENDEN COUNTY [NA:HF, 22 Cong., 1 sess.:DS] To the honorable William T. Barry Postmaster General of the United States of America We the petitioners humbly beg leave to represent to your honor that we reside in the county of Crittenden in the Territory of Arkansas near her northern boundary immediately on the margin of the Mississippi River from forty to eighty miles distant from the Greenock post office which is the only post office in said County, and that the only channel of communication with said office is that of the Mississippi by water, her banks and the adjacent country being frequently inundated by the overflowing of the River, consequently your petitioners labour to a great disadvantage on account of being thus deprived of the convinience of a post office, your petitioners therefore earnestly pray that your honor establish a post office at Barfields point on the Canadian Reach in the County above mentioned and appoint Geo. C. Barfield post master thereof a man who is in every respect quallified to fill the office, in establishing the office in question the rout would have to be extended from Dyersburg Tennessee to the above point a distance of not more than thirty miles by land and fifty miles by water by way of the Forked deer River, the land rout could be performed easily in one day for at least two thirds of the year, the remaining part of the season it could be performed by water in a canooe or skiff in a day and a half--the establishment of the office as prayed for, would not only be a matter of great convinience to your petitioners of the Territory of Arkansas but also to the citizens of the counties of Dyer, Gibson, Haywood, and a part of the counties of Madison and Obion in the Western district of the State of Tennessee as many of them would communicate with respective commission merchants and agents in New Orleans through this Channel, from the foregoing considerations and an honest conviction of the Justice of the prayer your petitioners confidently hope that your honer will giv the subject that consideration which its merrits demand and your petitioners will ever pray && Canadian Reach Arks Terr Decr. 25th 1831 Thos Pelhims Tho. H. Edwards John Squire Harmon Kelliams Foster Vansant Jacob Hunter Xenophin M. Harris Thomas Clark A. McNeill Burke N. Armitage Richard L. Jones Wm Gibson William Young Thomas Cook Peter G. Reeves John Lyles Daniel Carey Henry Hudgens Henry Lovit John Nickals John C. Bowen Josiah Denton C.E. Jackson Wiley Jones Zachariah Bailey P H Swain S E Jackson Burgess Bishopp Payton S. Hixon George Ager John Wilcoxson Thomas Conway W. O. Lindsey Claborn Foster Coleman Hutchin James Hutchin Bennett C. Dukes S A Cerbay Jesse Hucheson Nathaniel Foster Owen Evans Uriah Russell Dan Harris John Hudgeons William Clark John Meek Peter D Scoonover Ransom hill T. I. Mills John Forester Hannibal Good John Conley James Young Hugh Vansant John Lane Jno H. Walker Phillip E. Sheppard Charles Hill Jeams Williams John Ray Isham W. Smith - ---------------------------------------------------------------------------- -- Reprinted from: The Territorial Papers of the United States Compiled and edited by Clarence Edwin Carter Volume XXI The Territory of Arkansas 1829-1836 Continued United States Government Printing Office Washington : 1954 Patricia L. Hall Olathe, Ks.

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