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Petitioner(s): Elijah Humphress

Purpose / Short Description: Request for a lost military land grant to be replaced

Text of Petition: 59-1-1803

To the Honorable the General Assembly of
the State fo Tennessee —

The Petition of Elijah Humphress an
Inhabitant of Wilson County respectuflly
Showeth —

That some time in the month of
October in the year 1792 your Petitioner
had a Military Land warrant of 640 acres
Located & Surveyed by Sampson Williams,
a Deputy Surveyor, and in pursuance thereto a
Grant issued to your Petitioner for the Land
as described by said Surveyor — that your
Petitioner has frequently made search for his
Land in person and has also applied to
Said Williams to show it who, also diligently
hunted for it but could not find it —

And as your Honorable Body cannot be
Ignorant of the Slighty manner in which
the surveying business in this County was done
owing to the frequent troubles of the Indians
your Petitioner thinks that you cannot
hesitate to grant or pass a law for him to get
a new warrant or warrants as in cases of
Land being lost by Pryor Claims — as your
Petitioner is willing to surrender his Grant
to the State and prays that the same may
be filed in the Secretaries office on such a
Law being passed —

Your Petitioner as in duty bound shall
ever pray &c

Elijah Humphress

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