Petition for District Court for Amherst, Campbell, and Bedford.
- imprint_number: 1798.058
- title: To the honorable the speaker and members of the General Assembly of Virginia ... inhabitants of part of Amherst, Campbell, and Bedford Counties ... [ask establishment of district court in this area of the state].
- sequence_number: 58
- year: 1798
- place_issued: Virginia
- issuing_press: Uncertain
- author: Inhabitants of Amherst, Campbell, and Bedford Counties.
- notes: Dated at end in manuscript "Dec. 15, 1798" by a clerk of the House of Delegates, indicating date of submission.
Sheet lacks printer credit; residence of the petitioners indicates that this broadside probably issued from the Lynchburg press of John Carter, but without other evidence such an attribution is purely speculative.
Only copy known extant is held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia.
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