To the Honorable, the Speaker of the House of Delegates of Virginia:
This memorial of the inhabitants of the county of Bath humbly sheweth that your memorialist at your Oct. session 1790 obtained your sanction for a separate county, and the lands of John Lewis dec'd at the warm springs met with the approbation of the whole county (for the public buildings) not only from it's being the central spot, but the many other valuable acquisitions both from nature and and art to render it of not more, yet equal to any other inland town in the state as the great leading road from Richmond to Kinawa, Kintucke, and several of the western countys goes through said place. This together with the numerous reports of all ranks of peoples to the Bath make's it an object worthy of attention. But the lands being the property of the Minors? of the were welling can give it on no other way but rent, and that at so extra ordinary a rate, and under such restrictions as nearly forbid population altogether.
But every advantage would be removed by opening lots for a town at said place and in consequence of its being improved in this manner, accommodations for those who wish to partake of the benefit of the waters will be rendered more pleasant and convenient, and a real benefit result the people at large, and as nature has gave it this advantage for improvements, merchants, traders, and mechanics of various kind will gladly take up their abode, and reside in it whereby trade will be increased and promoted, and such necessary as the inhabitants of this county are obliged to procure with fatigue and expense may be had with ease and convience at home.
Therefore, we hope that your Hon'ble House will extend your sanction under the constitution of our county, and grant us a town at the warm springs aforesaid under such restrictions and regulations as your Hon'ble House shall think proper, to be corporated and known by the name of Bathville. and your petitioners as in duty bound shall ever pray.
| Daniel Yevins | Thos. Milhollin | John Paul Bolluson | Wm Moore |
| Owen Kelly | Lemuel Mecum | Robert Fletcher | Robert Thompson |
| John Russell | Jno Casebolt | William Ewings | Jonathan McNeill |
| Thomas Cochran | John Swisher | John McNeil | Wm. McCarty |
| John Scott | William Kincaid | Tho. Anderson | John Slaven, Jr. |
| Charles Donovin | John Higgins | John Alexander | Abraham Ingram |
| Jacob Gillespy | William Houchin | Stepen Dysart | Jeremiah Knox |
| Henry Graham | Jno. Rogers | Jacob Warrick | David Jacobs? |
| William McClintick | John Bollar | George Moore | Michael Dougherty |
| Ezeikel Steinman? | Robert Gay | Jeremiah Friel | Daniel McCollam |
| Thomas Drinnen | Chas. Burk | James Lewis | Alexander Waddell |
| William Doddridge | Geo. Massingbird | Geo. Poage | Jacob Hutchinson |
| Robert McClintick | Bengeman Collen | Jno. Ervin | Thomas Galford |
| Reuben Lunsford | Joseph Sutton | Wm. Nottingham | John Ingram |
| Abraham Burner | John Slavin | William Knox | Wm. Warrick, Senior |
| Arthur Graham | Jno. Yeager | Abraham McNeil | John Lynch |
| Jno. Dilley | Richard Hill | John M. Cackley | Stephen Shyintor? |
| Henry Himes? | John Sutton | John Moore | John Sharp |
| Samual Moore | Reuben Moore | Moses Moore | Mofes Houchin |
| John Warrick | Daniel Slavens | John Moore, Jr. | William Warrick |
| Felix Grimes | Hennery Anderson | Stephen Nailer | Wm. Ewing |
| James Irvin | James Edminston | Jas. Morrison | Robert Reaugh |
| William Poage | Arron Ewen | John Collins | Jacob Hawke |
| Robert Scott | James Scott | Enoch Cotton | Thomas Mann |
| Thomas Parker | William Hansford | Robert Armstrong | Robert Kincaid |
| George Kelly | Caleb Powell | Jn. McDuff | Ezekiel Trotter |
| James Davis | John W. Jones | Patrick Gorman | Thomas Byrd |
| Jas. Greenly | Daniel Daynboldt | Wm. Hughes | James Brindley, Jr. |
| David Fnooncs? | James Hamilton | William Salisbury | David Boiler |
| James Roebuck | Lazrus Bartlay | Joshua Buckley | Leavin Nichols |
| John M. Cackley | Valentine Himes? | Alex Loury | Silvinis? O'Del |
| John Frame | Thomas Brock | Reuben Slavens | William McCollam |
| Abraham Davies | Thomas Coberly | John Warrick | Levi Moore |
| Moses (Hou)chin, Jr. | Andrew Warrick | Levi J. Moore | Abraham Switzer |
| Philip Switzer | David Kinnison | John Gibson | Robert McCord? |
| James Stevenson | David Hannah | John Smith | Edward Kinnison |
| Henry Caseboldt | Giff Mcens? | James Scott | Isaac Armstrong |
| James Armstrong | Archibald Armstrong | Samuel Mikinny | Israel Hughs |
| John Kinkaid | Moses Mann? | John Morris | Denis Driscoll |
| John Fitzpatrick | James Scot | Michael Fuller | John Dean |
| Andrew Bourland | John Byrd | Valentine Cackley | Charles Kinnison |
| James Brindley, Sr. | William Lonsdale | William Sharp | Robert Harvey |
| Joshua Ewings | Isaac Linayer? | James Diles | Robert Hadligh? |
As can be expected with any 200 year old document, this petition was difficult to read. There may be some misread words, and some errors in names. Names in question are indicated with a question mark (?).
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