REFERRED 14 Feb 1811
To the Senate and House of Represetatives of the United States in Congress assembled.
The Pettition of John Singleton praying that Congress would grant hime one Sexion of Land at the Mouth of Wood River on the Misissipi and the fraction if any then should be lying between the Said Sexion and the River for the purpose of laying out a Town in St Clair County Illionnoise Territory at two Dollars per acre to be Subject to the terms of payment as the other Lands of the United States are whenever the Sales of the other Lands in the Said Township Shall commence
John Singleton
We whose names are here unto Subscribed do think that the place mentioned in the above Pettition is a convenient place for a Town and nessessary for the settlement that there should be one we therefore pray that Congress would grant the above Pettition agreeable to the Prayer thereof
| James Hall | Joseph Bartlet | Benjamin Carter | Toliver Wright |
| William Ogle | William Montgomery | Rezin Reagan | John Hamilton |
| James Hamilton | Samuel Rhodes | Martin Wood | James Stockston |
| Davis Price | Davis Stockton | Jacob Whiteside | John Powel |
| John Bateast Allare | Thomas Gillhim | Rowland Huitt | Jonathon Robeson |
| Joshua Vond | Chales Desherly | Samuel Yeaton | Isaac Gilham |
| H Gillham | Joseph McCormick | Miceal Dod | George Sanders |
| Orman Beeman | Jacob Whitson | Rydorus C Gillham | James Gillham |
| James Smith | Davis Whiteside | John J Whiteside | James B Moore |
| William Rutherford | John L Whiteside | David Everitt | Matthew J Cox |
| John Scott | John Jarvis Jr | Samuel Scott | Williams Adams |
| Charles Warker | James Pulliam | William L Whiteside | James Talbott |
| Thomas H Talbott | William Kinney | Samuel Chears | Robert Pulleam |
| George Moore | John Rusell | Martain Prewet | Phillimen Higgins Sr |
| Thomas Blankenship | Sollomon Prewett | James Prewett | Samuel Williams |
| Uel Whiteside | Absolom Woolams | William Gillham Jr | Isaac Forgson |
| Isaac Smith | Abraham Pruit | Joseph Edun | William W Arnett |
| John Forgeson | John Starkey | Jesse Starkey | William Forgeson |
| William Huitt | William Regan | George Harmon | Upton Smith |
| JP Davidson | William Jones | Richard Rattan | Abel Moore |
| William Moore | John Finley | John Vicary | Philimon Higgens |
| Joshua Talbott | Arthur Morgan | Elijah Talbott | Jacob Clark |
| John Primm Jr | Michael Masterson |
Petition of John Singleton of the Illinois Territory 14 Feb 1811. Referred committee on the Public Lands.--House Journal, 11th Congress, 3rd session, p260