Item 83: Letter from D[avid] Petrikin to Chester Butler, Chairman, et. al., 1837 December 22
Item — Box: 10, Folder: 123
Dates
- Created: 1837 December 22
Creator
- Petrikin, David, 1788-1847 (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Letter.
Condition Note:
Good.
Measurements:
8 ⅛ in. x 10 1/16 in.
Description:
A letter, dated December 22, 1837, written by David Petrikin, a Pennsylvania Representative, to Chester Butler, a United States congressman and representative of Pennsylvania. The letter is addressed to Butler as president of the Wyoming Commissioners, along with additional sitting members, including, Charles Miner, Benjamin A. Bidlack, Charles Denison Shoemaker, William Sterling Ross, and Lazarus Denison. In the Letter, Petrikin mentions that he has previously received a petition of memorial by the commissioners on the 15th, and intends to aid in having it enacted as promptly as allowable.
Though there is an actual monument for the Wyoming settlers who fought in the Battle of Wyoming, the term memorial is likely referring to a petition by settlers classed as “wyoming sufferers,” as they request aid from the government. This language and its usage can be seen in 10.54. Item 31: A Petition by Stoddard Judd for Catherine Ropell to Chester Butler and Committee Members, 1828 January 20, where Judd mentions that the case of Mrs. Catherine Ropell is being presented as a memorial.
Location:
Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania
Transcription:
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Washington City Messer Chester Butler 22nd Dec. 1837 Chs Miner B A Brideck CD Shoemaker MS Ross + Lazarus Dusier [illegible] Yours of the 15th instant enclosing the memorial in behalf of the Wyoming Suffer I have recd today and shall have it presented kasted upon the earliest opportunity - as a matter of duty I shall move to have it printed when committed and that notion is not respond in ordinary cans unconnected with some very exciting its a majority of the book unpleasant subject but as abolition. You may rest assured that I will give ale the and in my power to connumerate the wishes of the petitioners accept gentlemen indicideally + collectively sentiments of [illegible] + esteem D Petrikin
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D Petrinkin MC Free
Chester Butler Esq Chairman of Wyoming [illegible] Wilkes Barre Luzerne Coy Pa
Washington City Messer Chester Butler 22nd Dec. 1837 Chs Miner B A Brideck CD Shoemaker MS Ross + Lazarus Dusier [illegible] Yours of the 15th instant enclosing the memorial in behalf of the Wyoming Suffer I have recd today and shall have it presented kasted upon the earliest opportunity - as a matter of duty I shall move to have it printed when committed and that notion is not respond in ordinary cans unconnected with some very exciting its a majority of the book unpleasant subject but as abolition. You may rest assured that I will give ale the and in my power to connumerate the wishes of the petitioners accept gentlemen indicideally + collectively sentiments of [illegible] + esteem D Petrikin
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D Petrinkin MC Free
Chester Butler Esq Chairman of Wyoming [illegible] Wilkes Barre Luzerne Coy Pa
Creator
- Petrikin, David, 1788-1847 (Person)
Repository Details
Part of the Wilkes University Archives Repository
Contact:
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu