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His Excellency The Governor of the State of Georgia 
We the Inhabitants of the So [South]  Western Part of the County of Montgomery &c [et cetera]  --  Beg leave to Present to your Excellencies [Excellency's]  Consideration the Distres'd [Distressed]  Situation we are in on Account of the Indians. --  Our number being Small and the great distance we are at from the more populous Part of the Country Obliges us at Every alarm to leave our homes and our all to the Discression [Discretion]  of the Mercyless [Merciless]  Savages whose Custom in General is to take what they [added text: can ]  Carry away and destroy the rest. Their Repeated depredations of this kind has Ever retarded the Populating of this Part of the Country so as to make it able to defend it against their Incursions; We therefore make free to Implore your Aid to Relieve us from our Distresses the measures for bringing about so Salutary a matter Your own wisdom will best direct. But make free to Recomen'd [Recommend]  that a Station be placed on the frontier Between Berryhills [deleted text: B ]  and Beards Bluff which Space between Being near Seventy five miles. We concieve [conceive]  that the Plantation of John Ford on the Oconee River to be a Suitable Place for Such Station. Being thereabout Very noted Indian crossing Places Knoing [Knowing]  your Excellency to be somewhat acquainted with the Situation of this Country and and [and]  Particularly with the Calamities that a frontier is Subject to we add no more But submit Our Remonstrance to your wise Decission [Decision]   
 
14th February 1796 --  
[Signed] John Howard 
[Signed] Jesse Embree 
[Signed] Spencer Wilson 
[Signed] Francis Morgan 
[Signed] J. B. Hardin 
[Signed] Allen Griffin 
[Signed] Joseph Seehon 
[Signed] Jno. [John]  McCoy 
[Signed] Louis Page 
[Signed] Josiah Cox 
[Signed] William Ma [added text: r ] tain 
[Signed] William Johnson 
[Signed] Aron Jonakin 
[Signed] John Foreacre 
[Signed] Robert Brazil 
[Signed] Brazil Oversleet 
[Signed] Moses Jonakin 
[Signed] James Hancock 
[Signed] John Hill 
[Signed] Mark Bowen 
[Signed] John Averet 
[Signed] Mycajah Harp 
[Signed] James Morgan 
[Signed] James Ford 
[Signed] John Ford Junr [Junior]  
[Signed] John Ford 
[Signed] Jona [Jonathan]  Eammes 
[Signed] Francis Pugh  
 
 
 
 
 
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A petition from a number of the Inhabts [Inhabitants]  of Montgomery County Ordered to be filed  
8 April 1796.  
 
Judiciary  
 
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