Petition for a Road from Staunton to Alexandria.

• imprint_number: 1798.056
• title: The honorable ... General Assembly: the petition of sundry inhabitants of the state of Virginia ... inhabit a country remote from the two large rivers ... [ask for a road from Staunton to Alexandria and Washington]
• sequence_number: 56
• year: 1798
• place_issued: Virginia
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Sundry Inhabitants of Virginia.
• notes: Only copy known extant is held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia; dated at end in manuscript "Dec. 8, 1798" by a clerk of the House of Delegates, indicating submission date.
  Sheet lacks printer credit; location of road sought by petitioners indicates that this broadside could have been issued from many Virginia presses, so without other evidence an attribution is impracticable.
  
  
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