Item #53893 To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives ... The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the county of Chester ... respectfully represents ... that application has been made to your Honorable bodies for the formation of a new County (to be called Penn) out of certain parts of Chester and Lancaster ... the application is made to promote local interests, that it had its origin with a few who reside near the supposed location ... that the benefits derived will be for the few at the expense of many, that the aggregate of litigation will be eventually increased, and accompanied by an augmentation of expenses which will never be duly estimated until they are felt - your petitioners therefore pray your Honorable bodies that the application for a said new county may not be granted.

Unrecorded Pennsylvania broadside

To the Honorable the Senate and House of Representatives ... The petition of the subscribers, inhabitants of the county of Chester ... respectfully represents ... that application has been made to your Honorable bodies for the formation of a new County (to be called Penn) out of certain parts of Chester and Lancaster ... the application is made to promote local interests, that it had its origin with a few who reside near the supposed location ... that the benefits derived will be for the few at the expense of many, that the aggregate of litigation will be eventually increased, and accompanied by an augmentation of expenses which will never be duly estimated until they are felt - your petitioners therefore pray your Honorable bodies that the application for a said new county may not be granted.

[West Chester?], n.d. ca. 1830s. Folio broadside approx. 12¼" x 7¾", 16 lines of printed text followed by the signatures of 41 citizens of Chester County, docketed in ink on the verso; previous folds, light toning and spotting, top right corner chipped away; all else very good. Meetings began to be held as early as 1819 to create a new county out of parts of Chester and Lancaster Counties, to be named Penn County. The movement to create Penn County, with Kurtztown as the county seat began in earnest in 1825, and that a bill for this purpose was put to a vote in 1838 where it failed by a single vote. (See Cope & Guthey, History of Chester County (1881); and The Centennial History of Kurtztown (1915). Not found in OCLC. Item #53893

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