Robert Shortess, A. E. Wilson⚹, W. C. Remick⚹, Jeffrey Brown, E. N. Coombs, Reuben Lewis, George Davis, V. Bennett, J. Rekener, T. J. Hubbard, James A. O’Neil, Jer. Horregon, William McCarty, Charles Compo, John Howard⚹, R. Williams, G. Brown, John Turner⚹, Theodore Pancott, A. F. Waller, J. R. Robb, J. L. Morrison, M. Crawford, John Anderson, James M. Bates, L. H. Judson, Joel Turnham⚹, Richard H. Ekin, H. Campbell⚹, James Force, W. H. Wilson⚹, Felix Hathaway⚹, J. Lawson, Thomas J. Shadden⚹, Joseph Gibbs, S. Lewis, Jr., Charles Roy, William Brown, S. Davis, Joseph Yatten, John Hopstatter⚹, G. W. Bellomy⚹, William Brown, A. Beers, J. L. Parish, William H. Gray, A. D. Smith⚹, J. C. Bridgers⚹, Aaron Cook, A. Copeland, S. W. Moss, Gustavus Hines, George W. Le Breton⚹, Daniel Girtman, C. T. Arrendrill, A. Touner, David Carter⚹, J. J. Campbell⚹, W. Johnson⚹, John Edmunds, W. Hauxhurst, W. A. Pfieffer, J. Holman, H. B. Brewer, William C. Sutton. Sixty-five in all.
It is understood that the persons whose names are marked with an asterisk (⚹) are now dead; the balance are supposed to be still living.
The foregoing are all the names which appear to the petition printed as Senate document 105, and presented to the Senate at the first session of the twenty-eighth Congress.
W. J. McDonald,
Principal Clerk of Sec’y Senate.
Washington, D. C., Jan. 5, 1866.
Mr. George Abernethy declined to sign this petition through fear of injuring the Methodist Mission in its secular or business relations with the Hudson’s Bay Company.
Hugh Burns would not sign it because he did not wish Congress to be asked to confirm his title to lots and improvements.
Jason Lee, though he thought it right to petition Congress for protection, yet on account of his position as superintendent of the Methodist Mission, and the influence of the company against them should he sign it, thought it best not to give his name.
Dr. I. L. Babcock refused, because, by signing, he would lose his influence with the company.
Walter Pomeroy, ditto.
Dr. Bailey did not wish any protection from the Congress of the United States.