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OSL PETITION TO MEIGS

To his Excellency the Governor of the State of Ohio

The Petition of the Inhabitants of the County of Coshockton in said state would humbly represent to your Excellency that at this time there are in the limits of said County between four and five hundred families. That a large portion of the inhabitants of said County capable of bearing Arms have promptly obeyed the call of their Country and Volunteered their Services in its defence and have long since marched bearing with them all those Arms which might be depended on as means of defence. That at pre- sent this County is compleatly and totally defenceless and the inhabitants highly terrified and alarmed, more especially as several families have lately been murdered by Savages, one of whom resided near the bounds of this County. And your Petitioners would also represent to your Excellency that from the local situation of said County and the defenceless Condition of the inhabitants, an opportunity is constantly open for the incursions of those Indians who are hostile, and the Inhabitants hourly exposed to all those outrageous barbarities incident to Savage Warfare

Your Petitioners would therefore Humble request your Excellency to order a sufficient number of Arms and such quantity of Aminition as you may deem necessary for our defence to be deposited in Coshockton in said county under the Care Direction and Superintendance of William Whitter Cornelius P Vankirk and Samuel Lee to be disposed of by them, as in their judgment shall be most conducive to the Public good and the defence of the Inhabitants

And Your Petitioners as in duty bound will ever Pray. Dated at Coshochton County this 19th. day of Sept. A.D. 1812

[Here follow the names of the petitioners.]