Transcribed from microfilm and contributed by: Charles A. Sherrill, 1992
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Petition Number 20, Year 1839

[Envelope addressed to Major James Walker & Col. Joseph McMillin, Members of the General Assembly in Session now in Nashville. “This in haste. Calhoun T[enn]. Decr. 6th, 1839”. The Clerk has added “Petition on behalf of Louisiana Haggard for relief against a counter-claimant to her land. Ref[ere]d to Com[mit]t[ee] on Ocoee Lands”.]

State of Tennessee Bradley County, December 3rd 1839.

To the honourable Body of the General Assembly now in cession in Nashville we your humble petitioners having Taken into our consideration the condition and situation of our near Neighbour Licusinda Hagard a pore widow that we take a pleasure in stating that we have been for several years been [sic] well acquainted with as she has and does yet live amongst us and that she has been and yet is Considered a Citizen of Irreproachable Character for honesty Industry Integrity and Frugality and in the Month of January 1838 did locate and settle on the north west qr Section of Section the 18th Township 1st West of the Basis Line Range first Ocoee District in the State and County aforesaid and yet is residing on the same which is a poor dry quarter and we know of no settler Close[?] or Claim till October last a certain Armstrong Goins did set up a claim on said qr Section by Locating and yet Residing on the same which we think is an Intrusion on the poor widow as that was her home. We your Memorialists Apprehend that if your honorable body does not Extend your donation and Confer the sd qr Section to her that she will be Deprived of her home for which we do and will pray.
 

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