County Petitions from Huntingdon, Hopewell, Dublin & Shirley Townships

TO THE HONORABLE THE REPRESENTATIVES OF THE FREEMEN OF THE COMMONWEALTH OF PENNSYLVANIA, IN GENERAL ASSEMBLY MET —

The Petition of a number of the Inhabitants in Huntingdon, Hopewell, Dublin & Shirly Townships in the County of Bedford Humbly Showeth,

That your Petitioners not having an opportunity to Sign any former Petitions for the Division of Bedford County and finding a Bill is Published for that Purpose and Conceiving the Division of said County to have a tendency to Promote the Ease the Interest and Conveniency of Sundry Large Settlements on the North Easterly end of Bedford County, now Alreadie Settled and Still Daily Encreasing, a great number of the inhabitants having at this time to Travel from Fifty to 80 Miles to Bedford the Present Seat of Justice and that to a Place where They have no Prospect of a Trade or Market under these Considerations, Your Petitioners humbly Pray that the Bill now Published for the division of the said County of Bedford may be Enacted into a Law with such Amendments and Alterations on the Proposed Lines as Your Honorable House may think fit, And that the Town of Huntingdon, from its Convenient central Situation on the River Juniata may be appointed for the Seat of Justice.

And your Petitioners as in duty bound will pray &c.

[The signatures on this petition are not numbered, but a total of 229 is written on the cover of the document. When numbered, the transcriber found only 226.]

[Signed]

  1. Jno. Dorland
  2. George Semple
  3. John Ewings
  4. William McCoron
  5. Andrew Porter
  6. John Keneday
  7. David Mears
  8. William McCane
  9. Hugh Taner
  10. German
  11. German
  12. Alexander Brown
  13. Wm. Willson
  14. Edward Gibbony
  15. Joseph Willson
  16. Robert Willson
  17. Hugh Harlereum
    Zofer __hilaney
  1. Wm. Elder
  2. William Coniram
  3. James Lynch
  4. Michael Skelly
  5. Daniel Dimond
  6. Hugh Skelly
  7. Joseph Lilly
  8. James Gibbon
  9. Philip Stoner
  10. German
  11. William Anderson
  12. Thomas Miller
  13. Felix Miller
  14. George Neals
  15. Joshua Davis
  16. John Swager
  17. Wm. Davis
  18. Wm. Smart
  19. Thomas Geterol
  20. Edward Crylans
  21. __?__
  22. Jacob Eller
  23. George Mos___
  24. B__?_ __anshour
  25. August Harnack
  26. Wm. Abot
  27. Lodewick Elry
  28. John __?__
  29. __?__
  30. __?__ Clark
  31. __?__ Clark
  32. David Rolph
  33. Robert Freke
  34. Wm. Hall
    63. Peter Hartsack Sr.
  35. Mathew Lane
  36. James Brown
  37. Tho. __?__
  38. Wm. Brown
  39. Robert Edwards
  40. John Edwards
  41. Rich. Clark
  42. Eli McLean
  43. James Jonston
  44. William Lane
  45. Benny Huker
  46. Henry Hardesty
  47. Benjamin Shondefir
  48. William Meason
  49. Hercules Kemp
  50. Bariah McClain
  51. Wm. Ed. Aaced__
  52. Andrew Bearinger
  53. David Parks
  54. Jacob Hecely
  55. Joshua Gregory
  56. George Thisman
  57. Conrad? Miner
  58. Samuel Wheeler
  59. James Vanzandt
  60. George Vanzandt
  61. Thomas Long
  62. Benjamin Long Sr.
  63. Benjamin Long Jr.
  64. Wm. Long
  65. Broad Cole
  66. John Harod
  67. Thomas Bradly
  68. Joseph Edwards
  69. John Long
  70. Thomas Green
  71. Samuel Lane
  72. Samuel Cornelius
  73. Abram Wright
  74. Nathaniel Alford
  75. John Evans
  76. John Hoopper
  77. Ritchard Langum
  78. David Crane
  79. Zack Cheany
  80. Roger McLain
  81. John Keys
  82. Laurence X his mark Swope
  83. Danel X his mark Swope
  84. David X his mark Swope
  85. Wm. Dean
  86. Daniel More
  87. Peter Wagner
  88. John Harker
  89. Alexander Hustun
  90. Alexander Hustun Jun.
  91. Hugh Johnson
  92. John Hutsun
  93. David Peters
  94. George Shirley
  95. Joseph Norris
  96. John Noris
  97. Thomas Asbery?
  98. William Shipard
  99. Philip Butcher
  100. Richard Hutsun
  101. __?__ Rockwil
  102. Wm. M’Coy
  103. William Halaway
  104. Samuel Stuart
  105. Thomas Muntroy
  106. Hugh Lyons
  107. Wm. Ligty
  108. John Shaver
  109. German
  110. German
  111. John Traugh
  112. John Logan
  113. James Thomson
  114. Henry Warner
  115. James Jaxon
  116. Robert Harvy
  117. German
  118. Wm. Johnston
  119. Dean Shrour
  120. Benjamin Jenkin
  121. Benjamin Burns
  122. __?__ Lobsoffer
  123. Janetioris Gad
  124. Joseph Franklin
  125. Thos. Connaly
  126. Benjamin Mackrell
  127. Benj. Mackrell Sen.
  128. John Chilcot Sen.
  129. John Chilcot Jun.
  130. James Bunson
  131. Benjamin Brown
  132. Benjamin Cornelius
  133. John Rickets
  134. Joseph Parrish
  135. Wm. Cornelius
  136. Hugh Oveton
  137. Peter Cornelius
  138. John Loughrey
  139. David Morgen
  140. James Cannon
  141. Patrick Canon Jr.
  142. Patrick Canon Sr.
  143. Thomas Stephans
  144. Daniel Brown
  145. William Brown
  146. Joshua Brown
  147. Broad Cole
  148. Peter Hess
  149. David Styles
  150. George Stanes
  151. Charles Muller
  152. Daniel Stanes
  153. William Wilson
  154. John Pike
  155. Johnathan Loveall
  156. Johnathan Edintun
  157. Justuner Ohal
  158. William Ramsey
  159. Robert Ramsey
  160. James Barnet
  161. Robert Johnstone
  162. George Ramsey
  163. Robert Ramsey
  164. John Ramsey
  165. Alexander McIlroy?
  166. Wm. Justus
  167. Samuel Charltun
  168. James McIlowa
  169. Samuel Martin
  170. Thomas Wilson
  171. James Coyl
  172. John Farrell
  173. Robert Johnston
  174. William X his mark Guthrie
  175. William Stal
  176. David Cree
  177. John Walker
  178. Henry Holt
  179. George Gregory
  180. John More
  181. George More
  182. Wm. More
  183. George McMasters
  184. George Hudson
  185. John Gillilan
  186. Andrew Mical
  187. John Wilson
  188. Hugh Glen
  189. Mathew Tayleor
  190. James McKee
  191. James McKee junior
  192. David Clark
  193. James McDanhel
  194. Domonick Dymin
  195. James Lin
  196. Joseph Misarsun
  197. James Craford