OHBROWN-L Archives

Archiver > OHBROWN > 2000-03 > 0954184223


From: HERMON B FAGLEY <>
Subject: [OHBROWN] 1786 petition from present Mason Co,Ky
Date: Mon, 27 Mar 2000 14:10:23 -0500


From:
To:
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 14:00:25 EDT
S
I'm not sure which petition you are asking about. Benjamin Wallingford
is
in
the one from the inhabitants of Washington, and the first of three, from
the
inhabitants of Limestone. However, I think this is not Benjamin
Wallingford
III, but Benjamin Wallingford, who moved to Ohio.
Faye Walker

"History of Maysville and Mason County" Volume One, G. Glenn Clift, pp
56 -
57

The settlers of Washington were not long creating this first town in
Mason
county. On the 22nd day of August, 1786, the citizen law makers of the
settlement addressed the following to The Honourable The Speaker and
Gentlemen fo the House of Delegates, General Assembly of Virginia: The
petition of sundry inhabitants of the county of Bourbon humbly sheweth,
that
the most of them are settled in a new Village called Washington in the
settlement of Limestone in the county aforesaid, when there are Upwards
of
Seven hundred Acres of Land laid off for in and out lots for the use of
sd
Village, and where there are now settled upwards of Fifty families among

whom
are Mechanicks of divers kinds, and the prospect of a rapid development
being
made to the advantage of the Village and County. The sd Village is also

judged to be situated in the most central and convenient place to the
adjacent County, and that it would be the most proper place for erecting

publick buildings for the use of a county as soon as one is laid off.
We
therefore humbly pray that your honourable House will establish the sd
Village into a town by the name of Washington and your petitioners as in

duty
bound will ever pray etc.

Signed by: Elijah Berry, George Berry, Jr., Henry Berry, Joseph Berry,
Joel
Berry, Joseph Berry, Jr., Jullian Bickley (Beckley), Patrick Byrne,
George
Clark, Robert Clark, Luther Calvin (Colvin), John Conway, Miles Conway,
Charnwick Courtnay, Elijah Cusenberry, Moses Cusenberry, Vinson
Cussenberry,
Adonijah Davidson, Azarriah Davies, Elisha Deavitt, Silas Dexter
(Dextor),
Edward Dobyns, Timothy Downing, Nathaniel Drake, Jeremiah Dunn,
Alexander
Edwards, William Fitzgerald.

David Goodnight, John Goodnight, Michael Goodnight, Peter Goodnight,
James
Gridler, John Gutrudge, Joseph Harp, David Hathaway, Meredith Helm, John

Hughes, William Hughes, William Johnson, John Kenton, Simon Kenton,
William
Lamb, Henry Lee, Abraham Leforge, George Lewis, William Lewis, John
Logan,
Samuel Logan, Wilson Maddox, Abner Marble, Ezra Marble, John Marshall,
James
Masterson, Zachariah Masterson, Zachariah Masterson, Edward Mills,
Thomas
Mills, William Morton, William McGinnis, Thomas Nichols.

Abner Overfield, John Phillips, Benjamin Plummer, George Plummer, Samuel

Plummer, Nicholas Pryland, Cornelius Rains, James Rains, John Rains,
William
Rains, Robert Rankin, Josiah Record, Elizah Reeves, John Riggs, Enoch
Rose,
_______ Rucker, Davis Ruth, Hugh Sidwell, John Simpson, Samuel Simpson,
Ebenezer Smith, Jesse Smith, Lucas Smith, William Sparks, William
Sparks,
Jr., William Story, Thomas Stout, Samuel Strode, Benjamin Sweet, Thomas
Sweet.

John Taylor, Jr., Robert Taylor, Amos Thatcher, John Thomas, Andrew
Thompson,
Charles True, Robert Uria, Daniel Wallingfitch, Benjamin Wallingford,
George
Weddle, Lewis Whitsel.

[Mr. Clift references Robertson, J. R. Petitions of the
Early
Inhabitants of Kentucky. Filson Club Publications, Number 34,
Louisville,
Ky. The Filson Club, 1914.]

________________________________________________________________
YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET!
Juno now offers FREE Internet Access!
Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit:
http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tag

This thread: