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Subject: [RHEA-L] Petition-Augusta Co. Va.- Chalkley's Cronicles
Date: Sun, 5 Dec 1999 01:45:19 EST


1753-1754, Pt. 1.


To the Worshipful Court of Augusta now sitting: We, the inhabitants of
this County, have long felt the smart of the great indulgence the ordinary
keepers of this County have met with in allowing them to sell such large
quantities of rum and wine at an extravagant rate, by which our money is

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drained out of the County, for which we have no return but a fresh supply
to pick our pockets. We, your petitioners, humbly pray your worship to
put a stop to the said liquors, which would encourage us to pursue our
laborious designs, which is to raise sufficient quantities of grain which
would suffciently supply us with liquors and the money circulate in this
County to the advantage of us, the same. We hope that your worships will
discover to us that you have a real regard for the good of the County, and
lay us under an obligation to pray for your prosperity. Robert Stevenson,
James Hamilton, Alexander Walker, James Robertson, James Stevenson, John
Christian, Alexander Blair, Thomas Shiels, Robert Christian, Thomas Stewart,
James Allen, Joseph Hanna, Francis Beaty, Mathew Lyle, Archibald Reah, John
Walker (?), Samuel Downey, Daniel McAnair (McEvear), Robert Spears
(Syers), Daniel Danison, Robert Moffet, Alexander Henderson, Andrew
Hamilton, John Finley, Thomas Beard, Archibald Armstrong, William Mackan,
James Campbell, John Vance, John Archer, James Reburn, Alexander
Gibson, William Lewis, George Scott, Joseph Bell, James Coyl, William
Logen, Samuel McCune, John Caruth, Patrick Hays, Robert Sayers, Andrew
McCombe, James Montgomery, James Scott, George Crawford, John Allen,
Edward Spear, James Brown, John King, John Anderson, William Logan,
Patrick Campbell, Jacob Lockhart, Sam Wallace, James Knox, John Carlile,
Charles Campbell, Mathew Harper, John Jackson, James Miller, John
Hutcheson, William Palmer, Samuel Love, James Miller, John Henderson,
Zachariah Bell (Belche), Andrew Ewin, John Thompson, Loftus Pullin,
James Gay, Alexander Craig, Thomas Teat, William Wallace, John Wilson,
Alexander Ritchey, James McGee. John Thompson, Samuel Calhoon, John
Trimble, Alexander Thompson, William Snodon, Newman McGonigle, John
Trimble, Archibald Allison, John Brown, William Thomson.


Patricia L. Hall
Olathe, Ks.

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