Transcribed from Original in archives of Jefferson Co. Historical Society
by Robert W. Scott. Original spelling preserved.

State of Indiana
Jefferson County:

to the honorable board of justices for the county aforesaid we your humble petitioners pray for a road as follows viz beginning on the road leading from Madison to Versailles between John M. Mitchells & Peter Rykers thence to William Halls thence the nearest and best way to Sheetses Mill on Indian Kentucky and we will ever pray August 24, 1826

M. Hyatt				James Campbell
R.B. Mitchell				John Goeap? [Illegible]
John Bice				Atwell David 
Isaiah Hyatt				Wilson B. Benefiel
Elisha Brady				Peter Ryker
James Littlejohn			William Robertson
Gideon Hyatt			        James J.(?) Gillum
Andrew Hyatt			        Mordecai Wyatt
J P. Hobbes (?)			        Abraham Hite
John Laon (Cain?)
Amos Simpers
J.M. Mitchell
Wm. B. Benefiel
Timothy Barber (Jr. ) or (Sr?)