From: CEMETERIES of Gallatin County, Illinois
BOOK 1

1973-4
Regarding the Shawneetown area:

"A petition to congress dated Nov. 13, 1809 states that there are 30 families settled in the town or near the river bank at the place most con­venient for the landing, loading and unloading the supplies going to and the salt coming from the Great Salines owned by the United States Government. They asked that congress lay out lots of 1 or 2 acres and sell them to the highest bidder before some monopolizer buys or leases the whole tract and exacts exor­bitant rents.

Signers of the petition were John Robinson, John Manson, John REID, Joseph Lowe, Robert Dixon, Isaac Sibley, George Robinson, William Coen, Adrian Davenport, Robert Cox, John Davenport, Meshake Sexton, Marmaduke S. Davenport, N. D. Ander­son, John Reburn, Michael Sprinkle, J. G. Whelan, Reuben Fox, J. Wilson, Abner Wilks, Fred Delaney, Wm. West, Henry Boyers, John Williams, William Akers, Enoch Brown, Pierre Moulin, Joseph Land, Henry Kenyon, John Forester, Emanuel Ensmin­ger, Samuel Barks, Elihu Howard, John McConnell, John Handlee, John Johnston, Ephraim Hubbard Sr., William Morgan, Elias Hubbard, John Voodry, Augustus Hubbard, Peter Bono, Jacob Zellers, James Logan, Samuel Robb, James Wilson, Samuel Moore, Andrew English and Walker SCANLAND.

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The government set aside an area ten miles wide and 13 miles long centered around the salt works, to furnish firewood for the furnaces. Settle­ment on this land, except by those with connections to salt production, was discouraged. Laws forbade sale of this land, but this did not stop the settlers With some salt producers advocating destruction of all improvements, to prevent new occupants taking over as the old ones moved on, new petitions came out pro­testing the excessive amount of good land withheld.

This petition dated 2-21-1811, asked that each and every actual settler on the unsold public lands in the Territory be allowed 1/4 section of land in­cluding their improvements at the price the Government may hereafter fix. Signed as sundry inhabitants of the East End of Illinois Territory as follows. Samuel L. Carlisle, William P. Cool, Henry Kenyon, J. Campbell, Charles Linn, Joseph Green, Charles Ewing, James Fraziaur, D. Trimble, E. A. Keeling, James Kelly, Charles Edets, Simon M. Hubbard, Charles Stewart, Abram Stanley, George and Thomas Robinson, Emanuel Ensminger, M. S. Davenport, Walker SCANLAND, Joshua Sexton, Adrian Davenport, Harris, John and Cronton Wilson, Jeremiah Vinson, Samuel Robb, John Murphy, Osborn Powell, Mikel Cambell, Thorton Tanby or Tally, Deames Linn, James Smith, Reuben Cambell, James and Jacob Willis, William West, John Robinson Jr. and Sr., Gabriel Voodrey, Ephraim Hubbard Sr., Samuel Duvall, Henry Boyers, Henry Green, Jonathan Hampton, John Choisser, Wm. Kinchlow, Isaac Davis, John REID, John Young, John Davis, Isaac Morgan, Enoch Brown, John Forrester, Alexander Wilson, James Nathan, William Robinson, Charles Druer, James Wiseman, Robert McMullen, John Kersey, John Reyburn, David Uley, John Damewood, Warner and Fred­erick Buck, Jacob Zellers, A. Davenport Jr., Alexander Lomax, Otho Davenport, Samuel McClure, John Craw, Alexander Robinson, Alexander Druer, George Robinson Jr., William Akers, John W. Langford, Isaac McIsaac, Lewis Dewall, William Stanley."