Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
A project of the Bradley County Historical Society

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Petition Number 23, Year 1841_

[The envelope is addressed to Hon. George W. Rowle, Nashville, Ten. and is marked “Petition of Elias Hutchinson, praying the refunding of money & etc.” The clerk has added:

“Ho. of Reps. 22 Novr. 1841. Read & referred to the Committee on claims. S. -[?]. Mitchell, clk.” A later notation reads: “Ho. Rep. Jan 4th 1842. Comt. discharged from further consideration of Petition. Tho. A. Brown.”

[An additional notation from the clerk states: “The committee on claimes has had under consideration a petition of Elias Hutchison of Bradley County praing that this Legislature Refund a sertin a mount of muney to him and the committee has autherised me to Report and or leave to be discharged from any further considerration of said petition”.

To the Legislature of the State of Tennessee now in session in Nashville.

Your petitioner Elias Hutcheson a citizen of the county of Bradly and State of Tennessee would respectfully ask your honorable body to peruse the foregoing certificates and order by Special act or otherwise that your petitioners entry money paid by mistake as appears by refference to the foregoing certificate to be refunded & etc.

For which your petitioner will ever pray & etc.

Elias Hutcherson
Petitioner

[The following letter is also in this file]

I Luke Lea, Entry Taker of the Ocoee District do hereby certify that on the 2nd day of June 1841 Elias Hutcheson entered as general enterer forty acres of land at fifty cents per acre being the South East corner of the South West quarter of Section four, in fractional Township two South, and Range one West of the Basis line in the Ocoee District said entry being No. 3013. And that on the 5th day of June 1841, Evan Parker, entered as general enterer, forty acres of land, being the South West corner of the above mentioned quarter section in the same fractional Township and Range, at fifty cents per acre said last mentioned entry being No. 3246.

Given under my hand at office this 17th day of September 1841.
Luke Lea

Petition of Elias Hutchinson
(continued)

State of Tennessee ))
Bradley County ))

This day personally appeared before me Samuel Howard a Justice of the pease in and for said County John W. Johnson, James M. Henry and Bengamine F. Jones and after being sworn say that they are well acquainted with Elias Hutchesen and that the said Hutcheson did enter forty acres of land in the South East corner of the South West quarter of Section four in fractional town ship two South range one west of the basis line in Ocoa district at fifty cents per acre and that we have Just cause to believe and actually dose believe that said – – Hutcheson did enter the bove desseribed forty acres of land through mistake, in laying in his location he put it in on the South east when we believe it was his intension to have put it in on the Southwest forty acres of the bove described quarter Section, where he has his dwelling house and other improvements which is entered by Evan Parker as it is Shown in the Entry takers Sertificate.

Sworn and subscribed to before me this 21st September 1841. Samuel Howard, Justice of the pease in and for Bradley County.

James M. Henry
Benj. F. Jones
John W. Johnson