TO THE LEGISLATURE OF VIRGINIA
Lebanon Russell County, Virginia October 1844
The Petition of the undersigned citizens of Russell County, respectfully represents that you petitioners labour under great disadvantages and inconvenience in relation to the exercise of the right of Suffrate; that they or most of them live a considerable distance from any place of holding an election; in fact many of them live between thirty and forty miles from any place where an election is held, and cannot exercise rights conferred on them by the Constitution of our State from the facts as above stated, and from others that might be given. The Prayer of your petitioners is that at the Home of William Robertson Esq. at a place called the Pound Fork of Sandy River in the County of Russell and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray, etc.
| William Roberson Esq.
James Roberson Anthony Street Nimrod Street David Mullins Elias Green William Green John Roberson Wm R. Fraley Wm H. Roberson Alexander Hall, Jr. Isam Hall, Jr. John H. Morgain James Mullins Sherds son Hardin Hall Joseph Briant, Jr. James Short William Ingle William Hollifield William Short Alexander Short Thomas Burchfield Issac Back Joseph Church |
Lewis Black
Solomon Black Alexander Hale, Sr. Nathan Engle Isham Hall, Sr. Jonathan Bolling William Taylor Abner Russell Wilson McKinney James Mullins-Pound Mathew S. Roberson John Hall James Stacey William Hall Eli Mullins William Sowards Wesley Sowards Solomon Mullins – Pound James Mullins Daniel Doston Bartly Rose Alexander Russell Wm Short, Sr. Wm Church |