Petition for Tygart's Valley to be re-assigned to Monongalia Co pg I, 3

That Your Petioners leys Westward of the Alighany Mountains, and from the Center of our Settlement One Hundred and Twenty One Miles to our Seat of Justice, which Distance of Road Together with Eight high Mountains and many Rivers and Creeks in the Way to cross which Obstructions often Renders the way unpassible that we have not as yet injoyed the Common Right of our fellow Citizens which we are Sencible You mean not to Deprive us of, and humbly Begs leave to acquaint this House that the Seat of Justice in the County of Monogalia would be much more convenient to us than the Seat of Justice in Augusta County neither are we willing to be laid off in any New Direction that may hereafter be made in Augusta County as we Can not expect that the Seat of Justice in a New Division Could be made Convenient to us and to the People Living in the Interior Settlements as we would have at least Five high Mountains and two Rivers with many other Rapid Streams of Water in our way to any of the Settlements on Potomack or James River Waters. Your Petitioners Humble Desire is that this present Assembly would be Graciously Pleased to add our Settlement of Tigers Vally to Monongalia County as the Distance of Road from the Center of our Settlement is but Ninety Miles to Monongalia County Court House and but one Low Mountain to Cros, and the Waters insiderable Your humble Petitioners Prays, that our Distressed Situation would be taken into your consideration and Relief Granted, and we in Duty Bound Shall ever Pray Name Name Name Benjamin Wilson John I. Yocum Joseph Nelson Abraham Kittle Michael ____?? Charles Fornelson Peter P Springstone John Wilson Joseph Nelson Robert Clark Thomas X Isener Peter Hamilton Jonathan Smith Josph? Donoho William Hamilton John Stalhnacker John Truby David Haddan Solomon Ryan Nicholas N Smith John Haddan Benjamin Hornbeck Jonathan Buffington Charles McLean Nicholas N Petro Joseph Summerfeel George G Shavers Christopher C Treby Mathew Lambert William Currance Valentine Stalnaker Abraham Slots John Alexander James Westfall Elijah Slots John Cassity Henry Petro Joseph Friend Peter Cassity Aaron Richardson Cornelius Westfall Benjamin Jones Jacob Kittle George Westfall, Jr. George M Breding Nicholas Wolf William Westfall Thomas X Price William Wilson Daniel Westfall Jacob Shavers Thomas Fillipps Joseph Crouch Peter P Breding Jacob X Stalnaker, Jr. George Westfall, Sr Peter Shavers William Smith Alexander Maxwell Cornelius Bogart James Littell Thomas X Hoarld?? Joseph D Doneaho William Casaty James Lecky, Jr Moses M Kittle Aaron Vanscoy Jacob Riffle Richard K Kittle Jacob Westfall Andrew A Crouch John Crouch, Sr John Crouch Jacob Stallnaker, Sr This is to Certify that I have Been apointed formerly by the Court of Augusta County to Take in the List of Tithables in the District of Tigers Valley and they amounted to No. 86 Benj Wilson 23 October 1780 The above Certifycat of Tithable Done by Colonel Sampson Mathews Directions to me Benj Wilson