1833 Petition for A Post Office
Although the following petition is by the inhabitants of Conway County, you will find many Van Buren County names on here as this was written before Van Buren County was formed.To see how current Van Buren County fits into this petition.
(The signatures below been alphabetized ... they were not in this order on the petition.)
TERRITORIAL PAPERS, ARKANSAS TERRITORY, PG 673
Petition to Congress by Inhabitants of Conway County
Jan. 14th, 1833
Conway County Petition
United States Territorial Papers Vol XXI
Arkansas Territory 1829-1836, Page 672-673
PETITION TO CONGRESS BY INHABITANTS OF CONWAY COUNTY ARKANSAS TERRITORY
Conway County, January 14th, 1833To the Hon. The Senate & House of Representatives in Congress.
We the citizens of Conway County, A.T., being situated in a section of county, through which no mail passes, and labouring under all the disadvantages of sending, at least, forty five miles for our letters and newspapers, are constrained to petition your Hon. Body to relieve us of our difficulties by establishing a mail rout through our county. It is the prayer of your petitioners that this rout be established from Batesville on White River to Lewisburg on the Arkansas River, thought to be one hundred & ten miles.- Your petitioners also pray, that a Post Office be established on the said rout on the south fork of Little Red River, sixty five miles from Batesville, and that it be called Pleasant Valley Post Office. And your petitioners further pray that Dr. Samuel Smith be appointed Post Master, and that we receive the mail weekly.
John Ake
William Ake Roderick Bair James Baird Russell Bates John Bearden Bardaman Bennett John H. Bertram Hugh Boils Samuel Brickey Andrew Carothers Thos Cornwall John B. Craig Timothy Culp James Fears Andrew Fewget James Forest William Garner Daniel Griggs Luke Grimes Russel Hensly Clabourn Lewis F.M. McCallister |
John McCallister
John McCallister Joseph McCallister Samuel G McHenry Miles Morrison Alfred Musick William Musick John Null Phillip Null Valentine Null William Null John Peall F.O. Powell Allen Prior George Risner John Risner William Risner James Shuemake Samuel Smith Mark Weaver James Webster John Weldon LeRoy Williams |
* Answered Feb. 26, 1833 (NA,JD, Sol Treas, Lets. Reed.), in which the account was returned for a correction of spelling of DuVal's first name.
* (Endorsed) Arkansas Inahbitants Conway Co. Post Petition for a post route, from Batesville via Little Red-River settlements, to Lewisburgh in Conway County in Arkansas-Feb. 25, 1833
* Referred to Committee Post Office 64 Sevier
* (Petition for a postoffice be established on the said route on the south fork of Little Red River, sixty five miles from Batesville, and that it be called Pleasant Valley Post Office.