Residents of the area known as the Forks of the Yadkin petition for a new county, with geographic boundaries defined in the document, and signed by area residents. The new county, approved in late 1836, will be named for William R. Davie, a Revolutionary War hero. Transcription: Whereas we the undersigned, being the inhabitants of the part of Rowan commonly called the forks of the Yadkin, laboring under a great disadvantage in attending the courts of our said county, it being about thirty four miles from our county seat to the extreme northwest corner of said county. Therefore we the undersigned do pray that your honorable body will give and grant to us a county in the said forks of the Yadkin bounded as follows...