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October 24, 1807

Indiana Territory Clark County
To his excellency William Henry Harrison Governor of the aforesaid
Territory The memorial sundry inhabitants and citizens living in the
aforesaid Territory and county

Your petitioners humbly sheweth you that we are destitute of a Justice of
the Peace amonguest us and are at the distance of twenty miles from any
to administer the necessary duties of that office. We therefore pray that
your wisdom may deem it prudent to send forward a commition for John
Vawter as he is the choice of his fellow citizens in these parts as weill
bee seen by the list of names hereto annexed done in presents of
Abraham Huff Esq. a resident of Illinois grant this 24th October 1807.

Gideon Underwood		Jas. Vawter		Jas. Underwood
Wm. Offall			Jas. Edwards		John Lively		
Elzaphan Jackson		Joshua Jackson		Ralph Griffin		
William Hall			Jesse Vawter		Esquire Hall	
John Griffin			John Davis		James Robb	
Mason Watts			John Ryker		Stephen Green	
James Grissom			John Hall		Samuel Smock
Wm. Vawter			Joseph Laine		Peter Laine	
Isaiah Blankinship		Joel Jackson		Colby Underwood
Bernard McKlain			Robert Greer		Isaac Green