This petition from microfilm of petitions to SC legislature. The spelling was atrocious and the names hard to read. Beverly Dean Peoples. South Carolina Anderson District To the honorable body the Legislature we the under signed do pation the present sittin of our Legislature the establishment of an election ground at How(torn) old fields or better known by the Batalien muster groung as we are put to a grate deal of inconvienecence the -------- box say five or six miles we further desire that Samuel A. Dean, Samuel Dean, Esqr. and D. C. Howard be appointed managers of the said election ground. November 19, 1856 Patitioners James Jones Hyram Howard D. C. Howard Georg Howard T. (?) W. West Samuel Hall(?) William Jones A. D. Gentry (Yency?) Henry Long J. Dean J. (S?) M. Webb Lewis Bozeman Wm. Long James Stuart N. McAlister Moses Dean