1828 Miller Co. Petition 
Clarence E. Carter (ed), The Territorial Papers of the United States, Territory of Arkansas XX, 629
PETITION TO GOVERNOR IZARD BY CITIZENS OF MILLER COUNTY [NA:OIA, Lets. Recd. (Delawares and Shawnees): DS [March 20, 1828] PETITION To his Excellency General George Izard, Governor of Arkansas Territory Your petitioners Citizens of the Territory of Arkansas Miller County, and living within the Civil and Military jurisdiction of the United States humbly sheweth, That we are and for some time past been very much annoyed by the Indians, particularly Shawanees, settling among us, building their huts contiguous to our corn Cribs & fields, pilfering from houses and Corn-cribs, Killing Hugs, Driving their Stocks of Horses and Cattle among us, Cutting Down Timber &c and all done under the Authority of his Excellency Don Jose Antonio Saucedo of the Department of Texas who has given them a permission in writing, dated the 20th March 1827 at Nacgdoches to settle at this place (pecan point) until the line between the two Governments shall be run, then they are to be confirmed in their title. Your petitioners believing it to be within the power of the Executive of this Territory to cause the removal of the aforesaid Indians, humbly solicit the Interference of His Excellency - in the behalf this section of the country, Otherwise we see no prospect but of being obliged to abandon our homes and fields which most of us have cultivated from Ten to 12 years or be obliged to come to an open rupture with them as they have frequently threatened to drive us off if not pleased with their conduct. Your petitioners will await with impatience the commands of his Excellency and in duty bound will ever pray Pecan Point 20th March 1828. Petitioners Names: Pierson, J. G. W. Wetmore, George C. Clover, Isaac Leavins, James Leavins, Joseph Walters, James Furguson, James Montgomery, William Montgomery, Edley Montgomery, Andrew Ward, James J. Sen. Ward, James J. Jnreph Rolins, John Humphris, Thomas Hammond, Peter Clapp, David Wallis, J. Woods, Wyatt Newman, Jonathan Edmondson, J. Shaw, H. Hanks, James S. Hanks, H. M. Slingland, William Jones, Jonathan Greenwood, Franklin J. Wright, Clayborn Cutbirth, Elijah Cleck, Peter Lawton, George F. Trammell, David Bowman, John Hordy, Jas. Hagan, Walter Cutbirth, John Ballard, J. B. Kitchens, Pharo Hogan, William Killey, Zachariah Lorrence, David House, William Pelin, John Noll, Martin G. We the undersigned Grand Jury impanneled at the March term of the Miller Circuit court for the year 1828 present that the facts stated in the foregoing petition are true and that the community suffer much from Indian depredations. Wetmore, George C. Jno Robins Thos Boatwright Ward, James t. Senr McCann, Willis Clark, James Teal, John Kitchens, Pharah Dunlop, John McAtee, William Humphries, Thomas Davis, Levi Hanks, James S. Dolarhide, Andrew Hanks, H. M. Patton, Ben [Endorsed] Petition to His Excellency General George Izard, Governor of Arkansas Territory