Petition seeking Canal between Staunton and Appomattox Rivers.

• imprint_number: 1818.131
• title: To the General Assembly of Virginia: the petition of the undersigned citizens of the counties on the river Appomattox and its waters, respectfully sheweth …
• sequence_number: 131
• year: 1818
• place_issued: Petersburg
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Sundry Citizens of Counties on River Appomattox and Its Waters.
• notes: One of two petition efforts presented to the Assembly to help redirect trade on the Roanoke River away from the problematic ports of Albemarle Sound in North Carolina to Petersburg; this was received by the House on December 17, 1818; the other a day earlier (1818.130).
  This petition asked that the public engineer be directed to survey a proposed route "to connect the waters of the Staunton and Appomattox rivers, by means of a Canal from the Little Roanoke, a branch of the former, to Buffalo, which empties into the latter river." The Assembly agreed to this request with a law enacted February 5, 1819 (Chap. XLII of the Acts of the December 1818 Assembly).
  Sheet lacks colophon; given the petitioners' focus on Petersburg as an entrepôt, this title undoubtedly issued there; but the multiplicity of presses there makes assigning this to any one of them speculative, so the indeterminacy reported here.
  
  
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