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58-1-1803-5(2)
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59-1-1803_sic
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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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60-1-1803_sic(1)
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