Petition for a Ferry on the Potomac River in Berkeley County.

• imprint_number: 1802.065
• title: To the honourable the General Assembly … petition of the …citizens for the most part of the county of Berkeley …
• sequence_number: 65
• year: 1802
• place_issued: Virginia
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Citizens of Berkeley County.
• notes: Petitioners ask a ferry be authorized for a Potomac crossing at Falling Waters, northwest of Martinsburg, creating a more direct link with Hagerstown, Maryland; the Assembly granted one Thomas Shearer the right to operate such a ferry in January 1803 via an act "establishing several new ferries" (Chap. XXXII of the Acts of December 1803 Assembly).
  Sheet lacks colophon; this petition was presented to the House of Delegates on December 20, 1802, by residents of Berkeley County, indicating its likely origin in Martinsburg; but the connection to Hagerstown raises the possibility that it was printed there, so the location and printer cannot be attributed with further evidence.
  
  
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