Absalom Lynes

Document signed by Absalom Lynes, among others, petitioning to the Senate of SC for change in road commissioners. date not apparent, believed to be late 1700's.

To the Honorable the President and 

other members of the Senate of the State

of South Carolina ~

The Petition of the undersigned residents in the parish of

Saint Andrews pray your honorable body that the 

mode of electing commissioners of the road may 

be altered from the present mode, which they deem 

a very partial one (whenever a vacancy happened the 

board filling up themselves) be a mode more consonant to

the interests of the parishoners which mode they would 

humbly submit to your honorable body would be to 

permit every citizen in the parish to vote for such ap-

pointment, by means whereof the commissioners would 

not only be more conveniently located in a geographi-

cal point of view, but the roads and highways of the 

parish be kept in much better order. By extending relief 

to your petitioners in the premises they [xxx]duty 

bound will ever pray-

                                             De Bidding

Joseph Cole                       D. Seville

John D. Mealy                  R E Danner

James Bunch                    E. T. North

William Wood                   George Michel

Zodk Douejrhan       J. Runarky

John Arnot              Henry I. Chalmers

Elias Bunch

Absalom Lynes

Thoas Beruiscx

B. J. Smith

John Perry

Wm. Lansdell