Brook County Petition, 1839 February 23

Place of Publication: Brooke County
Index Card Notes: To the honorable the legislature of VA.: The undersigned citizens of Brooke County Va.. represent that the territory of the county being a long narrow strip lying between the Ohio River on the W. and the boundary line between this state and the state of PA. on the east -- is intersected by numerous large streams...making travel inconvenient and at times dangerous... your memorialists state that such is the magnitude and form of the territory of this county, that a due regard to the interests and conveniences of the citizens thereof imperiously require that it be divided into two counties. Your memorialists beg you look to the map for the truth.
Xerox copy Purchase. Va. State Library 10/29/74
Subject(s): County Partition.