To the honorable the Senate and House of Representatives of the
State of Tennessee

The Petition of the Subscribers, Citizens of the Counties of
Perry and Humphreys respectfully showeth unto you Honorable Body:

That you petitioners are at present, and have been, during the
last two years, labouring under all the disadvantages resulting
from the unsettled state of the boundaries of their respective
Counties.  That no improvements, having any relation to the
public regulation of the first named county especially, can
commence, or progress whilst the line continues in the uncertain
state, in which, they are at present.  They would represent, to
you Honorable Body, that, from the present Southern boundary line
of Humphreys County, to the Seat of Justice is nearly twenty-five
miles: between which line and division (?) there is an extensive
range of mountains, considered (?) by Nature, to perpetual
sterility.  Should the line above named, continue to form the
boundary of Humphreys County, of the South, and of Perry County,
on the North the Citizens, living South and West of Duck River,
will labour under the most insupportable inconvenience, in
traversing a desolate county for several miles, before they reach
any settlements connected with the place where they must perform
all their public business.  They humbly conceive that the finger
of Nature has pointed out the of ____ aims above____ the
legitimate boundary between the two Counties.  When they consider
in addition to this, that, Humphreys County will be twenty-six
miles in breadth, from North to South ____ ___ ___ ___ as
hereafter suggested, the prayer of their petition.  The affect
produced on the County of Perry would be giving it and extent of
about twenty-five miles from North to South, and locating the
Seat Of Justice on the Tennessee River, a matter of vital
importance to the interest of that County.

At Present there is not a public road leading to Reyoldsburg, the
section of Humphreys County South of Duck River, as little is
that part of the County regarded in the public affairs of that
County.  Your petitioners, therefore pray your Honorable Body,
that, a law may be passed, appointing commissioners in each
County to ___ out and mart a Boundary between them, Beginning at
the ___ Shoals on Duck River, thence running West, till it
strikes the dividing ridge between Robert's Branch and Blue
Creek, thence with Waid ridge to Tennessee River, thence West so
far as may be necessary to intersect a line bounding Humphreys
County on the West and giving it the Constitutional limits.  And
your Petitioners further pray, that commissioners may be
appointment to ___ on a site for a Seat of Justice for the County
of Perry.

And your Petitioners, as in Duty bound shall ever pray.
 
Valentine D. Barry   James Denson          William S. Brill   Jesse Holland
Nathaniel Dickerson  W. Jarman             D.C. Fleming       Amos Collier
Lewis Welch          Charles L. Brodery(?)                    Wm. Welch
Mark Stanly          John Welch            James Doherty, Jr  Henry Welch
Robert (?) Knight    James Allen           William Crice (?)  Rich Allen
George Brady         William Dunahoe(?)    Henry Yar_____     ____Dill

written circa 1822 or 1823