John D. Lee Case File

he has cause to believe that the party of emigrants referred to at the time they were murdered possessed a large amount of property and that a portion of this property can with proper diligence be recovered. Your Petitioner therefore asks as he has been already directed to take charge of said children by the "Department of the Intererior" and as they are left by the massacre of their parents without natural guardians or protectors in this Territory that he be appointed guardian over said children with full power to collect and receive all property belonging to the murdered emigrants rendering a due account to the Probate Court of all property so recieved and of the appreciation made of the same

The names of the children as far as your Petitioner has been able to learn them are as follows,

Rebecca Dunlap Louisa Dunlap Sarah Dunlap Ambrose Miran William Taggit John Sorough Lewis Sorough Mary Sorough Frances Horn Charles Francher Anna Francher Elijah Wm. Hough