Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
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Petition Number 19, Year 1839_

[Envelope addressed to Major James Walker, John F. Gillespie or J.W. McMillin. Nashville, Tennessee. The Clerk has added “Petition of John G. Glass for refund of money paid for land which was already entered.”]

To the Honorable General Assembly of the State of Tennessee, now [in] Session at Nashville.

The petition of John G. Glass, a citizen of the County of Bradley in the State of Tennessee, respectfully shews to your Honorable body, that on the fifth day of December 1839 your petitioner entered with the Entry Taker of the Ocoee District the southwest fractional quarter of section thirty, in fractional township one south, in range one east of the basis line in said District, containing twenty six acres at one dollar and forty cents per acre.

When this entry was made your petitioner had no knowledge there was any occupant right to said land. Others offered to enter at the same time and according to the provisions of law said land was offered to the highest bidder among them who had proposed to enter, and your petitioner bid the said sum of one dollar and forty cents per acre and become the enterer at that price.

Since that time one Charles Atkins has proved an occupant right to said fraction, assigned that right to Samuel H. Hannah who has about the 24th of December 1839 entered said land as assignee of said occupant, and so your petitioner’s entry is void. For the truth of the statements here made your petitioner refers to the statement of the Entry Taker. Your petitioner prays your Honorable body to direct the money he has paid the state to be refunded to him as he has lost the land.

Decr. 29th 1839 John G. Glass

Entry Takers Office

Decr. 30th, 1839

I Luke Lea Entry Taker of the Ocoee District do certify that the facts as stated in the within petition are true, as appears from the records in my office. Given under my hand at office the date above.

Luke Lea

E.T.O.D.