LEGISLATIVE Petition FROM AUGUSTA COUNTY, 7 November 1780. Virginia State Library, Req. C 170. To the General Assembly of Virginia. The Petition of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley, a part of Augusta County.

LEGISLATIVE Petition FROM AUGUSTA COUNTY, 7 November 1780. Virginia State Library, Req. C 170. To the General Assembly of Virginia. The Petition of the Inhabitants of Tigers Valley, a part of Augusta County.

Most Humbly Sheweth.
That Your Petioners leys Westward of the Alighany Mountains, and from the Center of our Settlement One Hundred and Twenty One Computed Miles to our Seat of Justice, which Distance of Road Together with Eight high Mountains and many Rivers and Creeks in the Way to cross which Obstructions often Renders the way unpassible that we have not as yet Injoyed the Common Right of our fellow Citizens which we are Sencible You mean not to Deprive us of, and humbly Begs leave to acquaint this House that the Seat of Justice in the County of Monogalia would be much more convenient to us than the Seat of Justice in Augusta County neither are we willing to be laid off in any New Direction that may hereafter be made in Augusta County as we Can not expect that the Seat of Justice in a New Division Could be made Convenient to us and to the People Living in the Interior Settlements as we would have at least Five high Mountains and two Rivers with many other Rapid Streams of Water in our way to any of the Settlements on [the] Potomack or James River Waters. Your Petitioners Humble Desire is that this present Assembly would be Graciously Pleased to add our Settlement of Tigers Vally to Monongalia County as the Distance of Road from the Center of our Settlement is but Ninety Computed Miles to Monongalia County Court House and but one Low Mountain to Cros, and the Waters Insiderable

Your humble Petitioners Prays, that our Distressed Situation would be taken into your consideration and Relief Granted, and we in Duty Bound Shall ever Pray

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NOTE: There were no other legislative petitions from the residents of this part of Augusta County. The next list of the people there are the tax lists (printed) taken of the new counties of Harrison in 1784, 1785, 1786 and of Randolph in June and July of 1787.

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