Petitions

Scope and Contents This collection contains a copy of the petition created by Abraham Browning and members of the New Jersey clergy sent to the United States government to demand that the clergy remain free from conscription. Inside the petition is a letter from Browning instructing members to sign the petition. The document was created May 26, 1864 on New Jersey and the interior letter written July 1, 1864.

Scope and Contents This xeroxed copy of a single 8 x 12 1/2" paper was handwritten by Levi Farley. The document is dated January 8, 1850, and directed to the Auditors Office. The first statement is: "Whereas a petition was duly presented to the County Board of Commissioners of Hamilton County at their September 1849 [meeting} praying a road to be located in Adams Township said County of Hamilton." A description of the location for the road follows. The road was to be thirty feet wide.

Scope and Contents This collection contains receipt books (1892-1929, 1931-1933), roll call book of members (1914-1932), a certificate of appointment to a constable, payment cards for dues, a metal sign, and a petition for constable powers from the Horse Thief Detective Association of Warren Township in Marion County, Indiana ranging from 1892 to 1933.

Scope and Contents Thic collection contains a copy of a typed petition of the Indiana Farm Bureau circa 1928, in support of the McNary-Haugen Farm Relief Bill.

Scope and Contents This collection includes an unused petition from January 1889 prepared by the Committee on Prison Reform in support of the appointment of an Indiana State Board of Charities to oversee public institutions, both penal and benevolent; a document reprinted from the July 1938 issue of Hoosier Farmer regarding "Property Tax Rates for Welfare and Poor Relief" and a copy of the Indiana Farm Bureau Inc.'s document "A Study in Per Capita Valuation in...

Scope and Contents This collection includes one undated petition to Governor Joseph A. Wright with 22 signees for the release of William Dettrow, a prisoner at the Indiana State Prison. The document includes two notes, one from the presiding judge of the case, James W. Bordon, and the other from Epy Dettrow, wife of the prisoner, both suggesting that Dettrow deserved earn his freedom. Among the signees are judges and jurors from Dettrow’s case, as well as John Studebaker, the father of the co-founder of the...

Scope and Contents This collection contains a reproduction of an original 1801 petition for funds for Jefferson Academy.

Scope and Contents This collection consists of business papers from 1805 to 1842, including personal and prison receipts from Kentucky (1805-1810). It also includes Lawrence County Court and Sheriff’s papers from the 1820s-1830s, land and business papers from Lawrence County, rules and membership list of a Lawrence County association “for the purpose of suppressing crimes in general, and more particularly those of counterfeiting and horse stealing” from 1819, and a petition on behalf of Indiana Judge John H....

Scope and Contents This collection includes a photocopy of Pleasant Wheeldon's documents for his petition for an increase to his U.S. Civil War veteran's pension, in Scipio, Indiana, ranging from 1888 to 1907, due to chronic illnesses resulting from his service during the war.

Scope and Contents This collection includes a December 6, 1827 petition to the "Gentlemen of the House of Representatives" signed by ten residents of the southeast corner of Shelby County, Indiana that requested that their part of the county be "stricken off" and attached to Decatur County; a clipping of Prof. Charles T. Powner's February 4, 1898 article from The Greensburg Standard about Doddridge Alley, the state representative of the petitioners, his bill...