Early Governors' Papers

His Excelency [sic] William Carroll. We the undersigned Citizens of the County of White, Within the bounds of Captain John Markhams Company of Militia, labour under disadvantages, from our remote situation from a Justice of the Peace owing to the resent [sic] removal from the County of Joseph Franks Esqr as appears from the clerks Certificate, which removal took place about the close of the last session of the legislature. we therefore hope your excelency [sic] will appoint and Commission George Ailsworth a Justice of the Peace dureing [sic] the recess of the Legislature, in whose skill and integrity, we have had hetherto the strongest proofs of, in the commission of the Peace, and many other occasions And we your Humble Petitioners as in duty bound will every pray

Edward Gleeson 1 James Young 2 William Harlow 3 J. M. Garson 4 William Pegram 5 Richard Wallace 6 Thomas Robertson 7 Joseph Robertson 8