Petition to TN Legislature To Incorporate Cleveland, 1841
Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
A project of the Bradley County Historical Society
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Petition Number 140, Year 1841_
[Cover sheet shows that this petition was sent to A.B. Green and was read in the House of Representatives on Nov. 29, 1841, and in the Senate of the same day. The clerk has added: “From certain citizens of Cleveland praying to have said town Incorporated”.]
To the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee Now in Session 1841.
The undersigned petitioners citizens of the Town of Cleveland, Bradley County Tennessee represent and shew unto your honerable body that they are desirous of having the Town of Cleveland incorporated.
Your petitioners therefore pray the general assembly for the passage of a law incorporating the same — the premises considered and your petitioners will in duty bound ever pray.
October 18th 1841
| James Berry | Benj. F. Stout |
| Jacob Brown | Green Tryslett[?] |
| J.H. Robertson | William L. Brown |
| John H.[?] Payne | Andrew Russell |
| John Hardwick | William Coxkiller/Cahiller[?] |
| J.N. Swan | John N. Cowan |
| John Osment | Isaac Law |
| W.F.[?] Ridor[?] | William Smith |
| Wm. —[blotted] ite | M.C. Green |
| B.B. Brown | F.S. Williams |
| B.R. Inman | Thomas Leach |
| Thos. H. Callaway | G.J.B. Thompson |
| William P. Lea | John S. Goodwin |
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| James Ellison |
| Daniel Williams |
| Z[?] M. Mornbury |
| A.P. Defriese |
| John Wood |
| James Fain/Fair[?] |
| J.W. Inman |
| F. Kincannon |
| J.H. Inman |