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 of Shirley Township Humbly Showeth,
That your Petitioners not having an opportunity to Sign any former Petitions for the Division of Bedford County and finding a Bill 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 Northeasterly end of Bedford County, now Already Settled and Still daily encreasing, a great number of the inhabitants having to Travel from fifty to eighty 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 Bedford County may be enacted into a Law with such Amendments and Alterations on the Proposed Lines as Your Honorable House would think fit & that the Town of Huntingdon, from its Convenient Situation on the River Juniatta may be appointed for 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.]
[Signed]
- John X[his mark] Foley
- James Galbraith
- William Logan
- Andrew Dodds
- Patrick Galbraith
- German
- Henry Fitzsimon
- Peter X[his mark] Pollinger
- Joseph Griffith
- Thomas Clug___
- Samuel Ireland
- Wm. Ireland
- Robert Gardner
- Samuel McMain
- Jesse Jeffers
- John Talkkenton
- George Armstrong
- Jakson Armstrong
- Samuel Taylor
- Ephaim Erwin
- James Nesbitt
- Thos. Morrow
- James Davis
- Andrew Campbell
- James Wachole
- Isaiah Davis
- Joshua Cornelies
- Samuel Persons
- John Persons
- Thomas Kinney
- Israel Brown
- __se Talkington
- ___herd Jeffersness
- John Spade
- James Daves
- Thos. Wachop
- Thomas Muerfey
- Robert Morrow
- (no entry)
- William Morrow
- William Swan
- Giles Stever
- Hugh Glen
- William Wesley
- Jacob Croo
- Sebold Stung
- Mickel Pollinger
- Simon Pollinger
- Henry Pollinger
- Addon Pollinger
- Zeconias Ross
- William Watters
- Jacob Gansshorn
- Jacob Grim
- (no entry)
- Gooshorn George
- James McFeatteres
- Isaac Gifford
- William Gifford
- Joseph Gifford
- Robart Mitchel
- Joseph Potter
- John Coller
- William Brown
- John X his mark Montgomery
- Martin Itnire
- Richd. Ramsay
- Thos. Cromwell
- James Meglauglin
- Peter Van __?__
- John Downing
- John Downing
- Addon Stoung
- Wm. Huston
- Benjamin Briggs
- Benjamin Briggs
- Samuel Briggs
- John Apelby
- Robart Lather
- John Moore
- John Polland