However, early Spanish settlers complained about the mosquitos and humidity at the original location, and petitioned to have the city moved further inland.

By that time, however, the logwood trade had declined and mahogany had become the chief export, so the settlers petitioned for a new agreement.

In 1869, settlers petitioned the post office to be renamed as Homewood, after the woods that the residents lived among.

He and other settlers petitioned to incorporate the Town of Kansas.

Western settlers petitioned the federal government to alter their public land policies to accommodate the realities of scant water.

The settlers petitioned successfully the Ohio General Assembly to grant them the status of being a county and construction of a courthouse began in 1806.

These settlers petitioned the Spanish government to allow them to form a separate pueblo for greater ties and stronger unity.

Since the post was located on prime agricultural land, many settlers in Bozeman petitioned to have the post closed.

In 1898, settlers petitioned Indian Territory to incorporate Holdenville as a town.

The first permanent settlement, however, was not established until 1750, and the settlers officially petitioned Sunderland to become their own town in 1774.