TO THE HONORABLE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FREEMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET —
The Petition of a number of the Inhabitants of Frankstown & Tyrone Townships in the County of Bedford Humbly Sheweth,
That your Petitioners not having an opportunity of Signing any former Petition for the Division of Bedford County, and finding a Bill is Published for that Purpose, Considering the Division to have a tendency to Promote the Interest and conveniency of Sundry Large Settlements in the North Easterly end of Bedford County, now settled and daily increasing, a great number of the inhabitants having from fifty to eighty Miles to travel to the Present seat of Justice, the greatest Part very bad road, to a place where they have no prospect of a trade or Market of any kind, laboring under these inconveniences your Petitioners humbly Pray that the Bill now Published for the division of the said County of Bedford may be Enacted into Law, with such amendments or alterations on the Proposed Lines as your Honors may think fit. — And that the Town of Huntingdon, from its Convenient central Situation on the River Juniata, at the Mouth of Several Large Valleys and Boatable Waters, may be appointed the Seat of Justice, and your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever pray.
[The numbers before the names are included in the document; they appear to have been added by the same hand throughout, probably someone counting the number of petitioners. A small number of irregularities occur in the numbering.]
[Signed]
- Charls Montgomery
- John Montgomery
- Robt. McCartney
- John Foster
- Elexous Lawler
- James Williams
- Robert Leonard
- Robert Meek
- Jonathan Wails
- David Meek
- Henry McWilliams
- George Maise
William Williams
- __?__ McCartney
- Jasper Nyce
- Georg Sexton
- Alexander Ewing
- John Travers
- John Waiklin
- Joseph Draik
- Francis Gardner
- Joseph Feel
- John Smith
- Abraham Smith
- John Spanogle
- Jonathan Hartsock
- William Stuart
- James Parks
- Linford Loudfain
- William Clarke
- William Waiklin
- James Jackson
- David McCluer
- John McCluer
- William Burge
- Joseph Burge
- John Rodgers
- William McCloud
- Thomas Montgomery
- James Caldwell
- William Maize
- David Elder
- Abrham Elder
- William Frelly
- Joseph McCane
- David Mairs
- William Crossman
- James Cresswell
- Martin McEarly
- James James
- Thomas Weston
- William Weston
- George Montgomery
- Alexander Stuart
- Wm. McClellan
- John Denison
- Michael Reilly
- Wm. Thompson
- Tho. Thompson
- John S[or L]ervice
- Evin S[or L]ervice
- David McClellan
- Wm. McClellan
- Robart Stewart
- Jacob Jannow
- Fre Drick Mar Cus
- Thomas Ball
- Robert Stewart
- Hendry Bloock
- Agness Lincoln widow
- John Man
- Hugh Loage
- Daniel Penington
- Amos Penington
- Paul Penington
- Thos. Kerr
- John Kerr
- William Edgers
- David Scott
- Jesse Tipton
- James Lenox
- John Tipton
- Giles Stevens
- Benjamin Johnston
- Samuel Rex
- John Stoneywin
- Charles Bradley
- Peter McIntosh
- Samuel Gass
- Robert Advin
- John Rase
- Joseph Burley
- Jesse Burley
- John Burley
- Peter McMullen Jun.
- Peter McMullen Sr.
- Johen Cassedy
- Willm. Lindsay
- Jas. Lindsay
- John Lindsay
- John Parks
- Richard Rikets
- Daniel O’Hara
- John Gorman
- Henery Moore
- Peter Flek
- John Troxell
- Willm. Gorman
- Patrick M’Guire
- Joseph Tearon
- __?__ Sossman
- William Porter
- John Porter
- Samuel Dickson
- Ritcherd Nolman
- James Dickson
- Andrew Porter
- John Miller
- Joseph Moore
- Robert Stewart
- Samuel Russel
- William Stewart
- James Dickson
- Edward Burch
- Theodoris Prigmore
- Georg Baxter
- James Dickson
- Saml. Kyle
- Joseph Osburn
- Philip Roller
- Henry Roler
- Susana Rowler widow
- Jacob Gray
- Rosana Morton widow
- Jno. Huff
- John Beaty
- Edward Beaty junr.
- Robert Beaty
- Thomas Moorhead
- Jno. Shepert
- James Moorhead
- Thos. Moorhead
- Willm. Beatty
- Richard Beatty
- James Champion
- John Bell
- Thos. McCune
- Wm. McCune
- David Lowry
- Archbld. Lourey
- Peter Gilston
- David Stewart
- James Stewart
- William Molholm
- Wm. Davise
- Thomas Donaldy
- Henrey Gervis
- John Gorland
- William Laird Sen.
- Wm. Laird Jr.
- Richard Short
- Jacob Hetzel
- __?__ Hetzel
- Jacob __?__
- Benjamin Beal
- Edmund Collins
- Margaret Porter widow
- Jacob Server Jr.
- Thos. Scoles
- Willm. Phillips
- Reson Davis
- John McDonald
- James Davies
- Saml. Davis
- John Davis
- James Smith
- Joseph Smith
- John __?__
- Paul Frasor
- John Gray
- Alex Sutton
- Daniel Moore
- James Moore
- David Moore
- Joseph Moor
- Samuel Moor
- James Clark
- Donald McIntosh
- Andrew McIntosh
- Robert Rickits
- Edward Milligon
- John Leard
- Richard Closson
- John Waggoner
- Peter Titus
- James Karr
- Samuel Karr
- John McDonald
- Donald J_stus
- James Crawford
- Hugh Lang
- Willm. McForan
- Hugh Mury
- __?__ __?__
- Thomas McCune
- Jas. McCune
- Benoni Hurbret
- William Blair
- John Blair
- Wm. __?__
- Jos. McCune
- Michael Fetters
- Francis Whitney
- George Fetters
- Michael Fetters
- John Fetters
- Daniel Fetters
- Michael Smyth
- John Freeman
- Thomas Armstrong
- Henry Caldwell
- William Reed
- Josanna ? [in German]
- ? surname same as above
- Michal Waters
- John Gripe
- Daniel [same as above]
- Simon Mor___
- Jacob __?__
- Daniel Mandis
- John Wise
- __?__
- __?__
- Danial McDonal
- Patt Sullivan
- John Royeastane
- Abraham Robison
- James McDonnald
- James McDonald Jun.
- Absolom Gray
- Isaac Gray
- Henry Sulifin [Sullivan?]
- James Thomson
- Robert Crage
- James Colman
- William Tompleton
- James Johnston
- George Tempelton
- Robart Wilson
- Rolart Wilson
- William Wilson
- James Wilson
- John Wilson
- Alex. Ramsay
- James Tayler
- David Ramsay
- David Tempel
- Samuel Pedon
- John Tussey
- Edward Tipton
- Masheck Tipton
- John Edinton
- Philip Edinton
- John Hes
- Mathew Patton
- Henry Whilend
- John Gardner
- William Wilson
- George Mattern
- George Mattern
- Jacob Mattern
- Benjamin Armitage
- Evan Crane
- John McCreary
- Mord. Massey
- George Morgan
- Richard Cheny
- Thomas Rickets
- Anthony Johnston
- James Armitage