To the honorable the Legislature of the state of New-York The petition of the undersigned inhabitants, of the counties of Ontario and Genesee, would respectfully represent (s.n, 1816)
"Strongly impressed with the truths of the foregoing representations, your petitioners humbly pray, that the counties of Ontario and Genesee may be divided, and a new county erected therefrom, by the name of [blank] comprising the following territory ... Dated 10th of December 1816." The division resulted in the creation of Monroe County, N.Y., in 1821. - Shaw & Shoemaker, 38447