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South Grove Records 1850-1982

Page 103 | May 27, 1868

Petition to lay a new Road

To the commissioners of highways of the town of South Grove in the County of DeKalb and State of Illinois

We the undersigned legal voters residing within three miles of the route hereinafter mentioned for a road do hereby petition to you to lay out a new road of the width of four rods as follows commencing on the town line on the west side of the town on the Section line between nineteen and thirty one in said town and running thence east over Lands of Andrew Jackson and AgustusDetmer [Dettmer?] to the north and South road on the same Sections Eighty rods more or less

And your Petitioners pray that you will proceed to lay out said road and cause the same to be opened according to law

Dated at South Grove this 6thDay of April A. D. 1868

Names Names

J. F. Schnee John W. Swain

Thos. T Schnee Geo. J. Dettmer

James Richards Wylan[?] Dettmer

Adrian Blackman H. T. Rand

W Rand C. W. Moon

John H. Wiltse Dal Welty

C. W. Dettmer Elijah Wiltsie [Wiltse?]

T. C. VanHorn

Appeared before me this Day Geo J Dettmer and made oath that he had posted on the 7th day of May 1868 there Coppies [sic]of the written petition in the most public places according to law

Given under my hand this 27th Day of May 1868

Geo. W. Wyllis } J. P.