Petition seeking Relocation of Princess Anne County Court.

• imprint_number: 1819.100
• title: To the honorable Speaker and Members of the Senate and House of Delegates ... petition ... inhabitants of the county of Princess-Anne ...
• sequence_number: 100
• year: 1819
• place_issued: Norfolk
• issuing_press: Uncertain
• author: Sundry Inhabitants of Princess-Anne County.
• notes: Petitioners asked that the county court be moved from Kempsville, on the northwest corner of the county, to a more central location to the southeast; they also asked to sell the existing court buildings to finance the relocation; petition was received by the House on December 8, 1819, and was sent to a committee, which recommended the move be rejected; the House agreed, but the pressure continued until such a relocation was finally authorized in 1823.
  Only known copy, held in the state archives at the Library of Virginia, lacks colophon; as no press then existed in Princess Anne (today the city of Virginia Beach), this broadside almost certainly issued from a press in nearby Norfolk; however, with at least two working presses in that town then, the origin of this title cannot be determined without further evidence, so the indeterminacy here.
  
  
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