To The Honorable The Senate And House Of Representatives The Petition Of The Subscribers

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West Chester? , n.d. ca. 1830s. Folio broadside approx. 12¼ x 7¾ , 16 lines of printed text followed by the signatures of 41 citizens of Chester County, docketed in ink on the verso; previous folds, light toning and spotting, top right corner chipped away; all else very good. Meetings began to be held as early as 1819 to create a new county out of parts of Chester and Lancaster Counties, to be named Penn County. The movement to create Penn County, with Kurtztown as the county

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