County Petitions from Frankstown & Tyrone Townships

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]

  1. Charls Montgomery
  2. John Montgomery
  3. Robt. McCartney
  4. John Foster
  5. Elexous Lawler
  6. James Williams
  7. Robert Leonard
  8. Robert Meek
  9. Jonathan Wails
  10. David Meek
  11. Henry McWilliams
  12. George Maise

William Williams

  1. __?__ McCartney
  2. Jasper Nyce
  3. Georg Sexton
  4. Alexander Ewing
  5. John Travers
  6. John Waiklin
  7. Joseph Draik
  8. Francis Gardner
  9. Joseph Feel
  10. John Smith
  11. Abraham Smith
  12. John Spanogle
  13. Jonathan Hartsock
  14. William Stuart
  15. James Parks
  16. Linford Loudfain
  17. William Clarke
  18. William Waiklin
  19. James Jackson
  20. David McCluer
  21. John McCluer
  22. William Burge
  23. Joseph Burge
  24. John Rodgers
  25. William McCloud
  26. Thomas Montgomery
  27. James Caldwell
  28. William Maize
  29. David Elder
  30. Abrham Elder
  31. William Frelly
  32. Joseph McCane
  33. David Mairs
  34. William Crossman
  35. James Cresswell
  36. Martin McEarly
  37. James James
  38. Thomas Weston
  39. William Weston
  40. George Montgomery
  41. Alexander Stuart
  42. Wm. McClellan
  43. John Denison
  44. Michael Reilly
  45. Wm. Thompson
  46. Tho. Thompson
  47. John S[or L]ervice
  48. Evin S[or L]ervice
  49. David McClellan
  50. Wm. McClellan
  51. Robart Stewart
  52. Jacob Jannow
  53. Fre Drick Mar Cus
  54. Thomas Ball
  55. Robert Stewart
  56. Hendry Bloock
  57. Agness Lincoln widow
  58. John Man
  59. Hugh Loage
  60. Daniel Penington
  61. Amos Penington
  62. Paul Penington
  63. Thos. Kerr
  64. John Kerr
  65. William Edgers
  66. David Scott
  67. Jesse Tipton
  68. James Lenox
  69. John Tipton
  70. Giles Stevens
  71. Benjamin Johnston
  72. Samuel Rex
  73. John Stoneywin
  74. Charles Bradley
  75. Peter McIntosh
  76. Samuel Gass
  77. Robert Advin
  78. John Rase
  79. Joseph Burley
  80. Jesse Burley
  81. John Burley
  82. Peter McMullen Jun.
  83. Peter McMullen Sr.
  84. Johen Cassedy
  85. Willm. Lindsay
  86. Jas. Lindsay
  87. John Lindsay
  88. John Parks
  89. Richard Rikets
  90. Daniel O’Hara
  91. John Gorman
  92. Henery Moore
  93. Peter Flek
  94. John Troxell
  95. Willm. Gorman
  96. Patrick M’Guire
  97. Joseph Tearon
  98. __?__ Sossman
  99. William Porter
  100. John Porter
  101. Samuel Dickson
  102. Ritcherd Nolman
  103. James Dickson
  104. Andrew Porter
  105. John Miller
  106. Joseph Moore
  107. Robert Stewart
  108. Samuel Russel
  109. William Stewart
  110. James Dickson
  111. Edward Burch
  112. Theodoris Prigmore
  113. Georg Baxter
  114. James Dickson
  115. Saml. Kyle
  116. Joseph Osburn
  117. Philip Roller
  118. Henry Roler
  119. Susana Rowler widow
  120. Jacob Gray
  121. Rosana Morton widow
  122. Jno. Huff
  123. John Beaty
  124. Edward Beaty junr.
  125. Robert Beaty
  126. Thomas Moorhead
  127. Jno. Shepert
  128. James Moorhead
  129. Thos. Moorhead
  130. Willm. Beatty
  131. Richard Beatty
  132. James Champion
  133. John Bell
  134. Thos. McCune
  135. Wm. McCune
  136. David Lowry
  137. Archbld. Lourey
  138. Peter Gilston
  139. David Stewart
  140. James Stewart
  141. William Molholm
  142. Wm. Davise
  143. Thomas Donaldy
  144. Henrey Gervis
  145. John Gorland
  146. William Laird Sen.
  147. Wm. Laird Jr.
  148. Richard Short
  149. Jacob Hetzel
  150. __?__ Hetzel
  151. Jacob __?__
  152. Benjamin Beal
  153. Edmund Collins
  154. Margaret Porter widow
  155. Jacob Server Jr.
  156. Thos. Scoles
  157. Willm. Phillips
  158. Reson Davis
  159. John McDonald
  160. James Davies
  161. Saml. Davis
  162. John Davis
  163. James Smith
  164. Joseph Smith
  165. John __?__
  166. Paul Frasor
  167. John Gray
  168. Alex Sutton
  169. Daniel Moore
  170. James Moore
  171. David Moore
  172. Joseph Moor
  173. Samuel Moor
  174. James Clark
  175. Donald McIntosh
  176. Andrew McIntosh
  177. Robert Rickits
  178. Edward Milligon
  179. John Leard
  180. Richard Closson
  181. John Waggoner
  182. Peter Titus
  183. James Karr
  184. Samuel Karr
  185. John McDonald
  186. Donald J_stus
  187. James Crawford
  188. Hugh Lang
  189. Willm. McForan
  190. Hugh Mury
  191. __?__ __?__
  192. Thomas McCune
  193. Jas. McCune
  194. Benoni Hurbret
  195. William Blair
  196. John Blair
  197. Wm. __?__
  198. Jos. McCune
  199. Michael Fetters
  200. Francis Whitney
  201. George Fetters
  202. Michael Fetters
  203. John Fetters
  204. Daniel Fetters
  205. Michael Smyth
  206. John Freeman
  207. Thomas Armstrong
  208. Henry Caldwell
  209. William Reed
  210. Josanna ? [in German]
  211. ? surname same as above
  212. Michal Waters
  213. John Gripe
  214. Daniel [same as above]
  215. Simon Mor___
  216. Jacob __?__
  217. Daniel Mandis
  218. John Wise
  219. __?__
  220. __?__
  221. Danial McDonal
  222. Patt Sullivan
  223. John Royeastane
  224. Abraham Robison
  225. James McDonnald
  226. James McDonald Jun.
  227. Absolom Gray
  228. Isaac Gray
  229. Henry Sulifin [Sullivan?]
  230. James Thomson
  231. Robert Crage
  232. James Colman
  233. William Tompleton
  234. James Johnston
  235. George Tempelton
  236. Robart Wilson
  237. Rolart Wilson
  238. William Wilson
  239. James Wilson
  240. John Wilson
  241. Alex. Ramsay
  242. James Tayler
  243. David Ramsay
  244. David Tempel
  245. Samuel Pedon
  246. John Tussey
  247. Edward Tipton
  248. Masheck Tipton
  249. John Edinton
  250. Philip Edinton
  251. John Hes
  252. Mathew Patton
  253. Henry Whilend
  254. John Gardner
  255. William Wilson
  256. George Mattern
  257. George Mattern
  258. Jacob Mattern
  259. Benjamin Armitage
  260. Evan Crane
  261. John McCreary
  262. Mord. Massey
  263. George Morgan
  264. Richard Cheny
  265. Thomas Rickets
  266. Anthony Johnston
  267. James Armitage