Petition from Edson Whipple and Others, 30 April 1844
Petition from Edson Whipple and Others, 30 April 1844
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Edson Whipple and twenty-six others, Petition, , Hancock Co., IL, to Nauvoo City Council, 30 Apr. 1844; unidentified handwriting; signatures of petitioners; endorsements in handwriting of ; docket in unidentified handwriting; one page; Nauvoo, IL, Records, 1841–1845, CHL.
April 30th. 1844
To The Citty Council of
Whereas we the undersigned Citizens of said have & are constantly subjected to many inconveneances for the want of opening certain Streets, laid out in said (viz) Green & Striaght <Cutler> < Cutter> Streets, & We the the undersigned most humbly prey <East East> your most Noble Body to grant the undersigned Petitioners, the privledge of opening said Streets, so as to inable the Cittizens residing contiguous too said Streets to get out into the main traviled road without going a great way <around> & subjecting Themselves to many difficulties which can not be avoided if said Prayr is not granted
| Names— | Names. |
| Hiram Gals | Edson Whipple |
| Philander Colton | Benja. R. Lamb |
| Joseph Barrow | James Wemberes |
| Joseph Hutchinson | A Colton |
| Nathaniel Lorea | |
| Thomas S Edward, Jr <(a c Cathr> | |
| John W Pike | |
| Odrive Van buskeph | James Newbury |
| Nelson McCarter | J S Scofield |
| [illegible] Driless | George Ivan Beck |
| T C Merrills | |
| Miles Anderson | |
| John Topham | |
| Jeremiah Curtis | |
| Wm. Sane | |
| Noto | |
| Norton Jacob | |
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TEXT: Insertion in graphite.

Signatures of petitioners.
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