Second Petition to TN Legislature To Make the Hiwassee River Navigable, 1855
Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
A project of the Bradley County Historical Society
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Year 1855, Petition Number 29
[This petition was apparently enclosed with the previous petition and is on the same topic. There was no separate cover sheet for this petition.]
To the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee. Your petitioners would represent to your honorable body, that the Hiwassee River, passing through the County of Polk from the big Savannah farm in said County, to Charleston Bradley County, is a stream well suited to navigation, the same running between these points is surrounded by a productive soil and not far distant from a mineral region of vast wealth especially of copper ore upon said stream from Gen. Gambles landing to Charleston large quantities of ore have been shipped in a steam boat during the rainy season of the year but owing to obstructions that exist in said stream, it cannot but for a small portion of the year be rendered available for the purposes of navigation, by the removal of which obstruction it could be rendered at all times navigable and thereby greatly facilitate the agricultural and mineral interest of E Tennessee. In consideration of the premises, your petitioners ask your honorable body to make an appropriation of some suitable sum to be applied under the direction of commissioners appointed for the purpose to the cleaning out of said river herein before named, from the Savannah Polk County, to Charleston Bradley County Tennessee.
ued. [as submitted]
Now therefore your memorialist most respectfully request your Honorable body, to appoint commissioners for the purpose of executing titles to lots in the premises aforesaid – or in any manner as may in your wisdom deem best and as in duty your memorialists will pray & etc. Feb. 16th, 1854
| Rufus Mcclary | R.H. Wells |
| [?] C. Donaldson | P.B. Mayfield |
| J.A. Bible | Thos. R. McClary |
| W.B. Reynolds | N.A. Harrison |
| J.H. Lax[?] | John H. Ditmore |
| James Hughes | W.C. Reynolds |
| Denis Hoskings | John B. Cate |
| James M.R. Hannah | W.B. Wright |
| Abraham Lowe | Wm. E. McConnell |
| W.P. Pursley | Robt. N. Fleming |
| G.W. Harrison | |
| James Smith | Zachariah Rod[dy?] |
| N.J. Hughes | George J. Ward |
| John J. Parker | M. Mattock |
| John Norman | Silvester Blackwell |
| James H. Leming | L. Runion |
| D.O. Haskins | C. Lowery |
| Samuel Duggan | A.B. Nelson |
| William Morgan[?] | A.J. Straton |
| James[?] Gamble | J. Quiner[?] |
| James H. Ledford | T.M. Carden |
| J.T. Stevenson | J.W. Cox |
| W.R. Smith | G.W. Orr |
| John Smith | Elias Gibson |
| C.W. McClary | James Lauderdale |
| John S. Hodge[?] | Wm. S. Haynie, Sr. |
| Moses Parks[?] | Jas. S. Vaughan |
| John Lea | Tho. Jonson |
| Wm. Mayfield | Abraham Lillard |
| E.P. Chastain | A. Rolin |
| Joseph M. Alexander | H.B. Cawood |
| Peter Brown | Isaac Smith |
| John Crawford | Wm. Donalson |
| J.L. McClary | M[?] L. Gold |
| I.S. Land | Laurel[?] Gee |
| Norman Land | J.M. Smith |
| Jas. Sweton | Young Davis |
| James Parks | H.M. Dixon[?] |
| A.P. Crawford[?] | Johnson Smith[?] |
| James Fleming | J. Mayfield |
| A.P. McClary | J. Igou[?] |
| Joseph Runions | C.T. Spirlar[?] |
| H. Spirlar | J.H. Atkins |
| J. Wamak | W.A. Denton |
| W.H. Maples | George Cloud |
| Alex Deliker | Thos. M. Lauderdale |
| Daniel Horton | Erby Boyd, Jr. |
| Thomas A. Hannah | Myron Rogers |
| R.W. McClary | Jessey Tinker |
| James Hickey | W.H. McKamy |
| Lazarus Poteet | J.H. Hannah |
| H.P. Kimsey | John A. Sloan |
| Benjamin Mann | J.H. Dobson |
| Philmer W. Green | Samuel Dunn |
| A.V. Hannah | John Mayfield |
| William Knox | R.C. Dobson |
| C.M. Jordan | Michael Hawkins |
| John B. Cox Sr. | James Ware |
| S.S. Stout | W.H. Hammond |
| H.B. Henegar | T.D. Knight |
| Wm. Bryant | |
| J.L. McAllister | |
| James Blackburn | |
| J.R. Aiken | Thos J. Knox |
| B. McCarty | Thos. A. McCarty |
| Wm. Brittain | Wm. B. Johnston |
| J.H. Ball | |
| H. Graves | |
| J.B.[?] Graves | |
| M.L. Aiken | |
| J.W. Aiken | |
| James M. Knox | |
| James B. Bain | |
| S.S. Barrett |
NOTE: The following names may not be signers of this petition. There was an error in the transcription originally posted on the Bradley County TNGenWeb site, and it has gone unnoticed until 2023. We are researching to confirm. Meanwhile, we are including the names here in case they are correct.
J.C. Camp
Calvin Sutten
G.W. Middlecoff
M.W. Legg
G.W. Lawson
S.D. Bridgman
Isaac Lowe
C.M. Collins
S.Y. Colville
H.E. Dodson
J.T. Middlecoff
L.B. & V. Miller
Rehoboam Anderson
Benjamin Hess
W.R. Davis
L.L. Shugarth
William Grant
S.A.R. Swann
Asa Stamper
L. Shugart
G. Deford
Jno. N. Cowan
H.B. Davis
Jn. Cowan & Bro.
Jacob Goodner
Wm. W. Hawk
Brice Robbins
S.T. Kelley
A.H. Lawson
R. H. McCroskey
John H. Robertson
J.T. Harle
Samuel Gillahan
F.H. Houseley
J. Branaham
John Boone
S.M. Wann
R.R. Harris
James Coffman
F.M. Anderson
W.H. Kenner
A.R. Potts
Geo. Fox
C. McLeod
Theo. Mountcastle
Wm. J. Campbell
E. Spriggs
Elbert Good
James Seaborn