I do not know if the document still exists, but it would have been created sometime between the late summer of 1815 and 10 Jan 1816 (when Jackson County was organized). My ancestors Dr. Conrad WILL and Capt. William BOON called the meeting in Brownsville which led to the creation of the Brownsville Petition, according to "Biographical sketch in Formation and Settlement of Jackson County, IL," On a Saturday in the late summer of 1815, Dr. Conrad Will and Capt. William Boon called a meeting of local settlers to propose a petition for forming a new county in Illinois. The county name was decided upon by vote - Jackson County - in honor of Andrew Jackson. The meeting was held at the Salt Spring of the Big Muddy River, where Dr. Conrad Will had settled the previous year for the purpose of manufacturing salt. He was a low, heavy-set man of florid complexion; he had 'sandy' hair and blue eyes. He wore 'store' clothes, while most of the men wore moccasins, buckskin breeches, home-spun shirts, and wore coonskin or wildcat caps. On 18 Apr 1818, Congress passed a bill admitting Illinois as a state into the Federal Union. Conrad Will attended the convention in Kaskaskia in July, 1818 and helped draft the first constitution of the state of Illinois. He served as State Senator or as Representative the following years: State Senator: 1818-19, 1829-30, 1831-32, 1833-34 State Representative: 1820-22, 1823-24, 1825-26 http://www.tomshawcross.blogspot.com http://worldconnect.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=shawcross&id=I53 ----- Original Message ----- From: "Velda Moore" <vlchas@mindspring.com> To: <ILJACKSO-L@rootsweb.com>; "ILRANDOL" <ILRANDOL-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, August 24, 2006 10:48 PM Subject: [ILJACKSO] BROWNSVILLE PETITION > Does anyone know anything about the BROWNSVILLE PETITION requesting that > Jackson County become a county separate from Randolph County? Where can > it > be found? I am hoping it is still intact. What is the date of the > document? > > Velda Wittenbrink Moore > vlchas@mindspring.com > http://www.larrett.com/velda/ > http://www.rootsweb.com/~ilrcgs/ > > -- > No virus found in this outgoing message. > Checked by AVG Free Edition. > Version: 7.1.405 / Virus Database: 268.11.6/427 - Release Date: 8/24/2006 > > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ > > Karima, List Administrator ILJACKSO-admin@rootsweb.com > List Guidelines: http://www.rootsweb.com/~illinois/JacksonCoWelcome.html > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > ILJACKSO-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >