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Text of Petition: 41-1-1803-1

To the Honorable the General Assembly of the State of Tennessee to set in Knoxville on the third Monday in September 1803 —

We your humble petitioners do beg that your honors will take our present grievance into consideration

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Given Name(s)	Surname	Name Prefix	Name Suffix	Signed X (or other mark)	Transcriber's Comment
Jeremiah	Taylor
Patrick	Neil
Joseph	Taylor
Jacob	Haughter
Thomas	Craft
John	Cleuft				Could be Cleuft, Aeuft, Cleuff, or Aeuff
Washington	Lewis
William	Nash
Thomas	Keng
William	Childreys
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John	Beard
Elijah
	Hicks
William	Smith
	Hicks
	Hicks
Stephen	Taylor
	Jones

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Martin	Beard
Charles	Baker
Jacob	Lake
marshall
John
William Crawford
John

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Petitioner(s): John McDonald James Roberson Benjamin Boon ??? Haiser Joseph Evans John Robins Jeremiah {ink spot} Stephen Roberson Wm Sinclare William Evins Thomas Caltahon Jeams Handerson John Robins George Smith William Livingston Thomas Livingston

Purpose / Short Description: A petition to reduce the sizes of Smith and Jackson Counties to their consitutional limits

Text of Petition: 54-1-1803-3

To the Honb'le Speaker and Honb'le House of Representatives of the State of Tennessee — We your Humble petitioners Showeth that whereas there are many Inconveniences and disadvantages arising to us the Inhabitants of this part of the State in consequence of the counties of Smith and Jackson not having been reduced to their consitutional Limits —

We therefore find it highly incumbent on us to pray a regulation of said counties may take place and upon the following plan —

To begin at a certain point on the Kentucky line and run due South thereby dividing the counties of Smith and Sumner extending Said line South far enough to reduce the county of Smith to its consitutional area, {insert?} then the County of Jackson to take its Beginning on the said Kentucky line and be laid off in the same manner as the county of Smith on the Eastern Line thereof to its consitutional limit — and we your petitioners further pray that the county of Jackson may not be entered nor the court house thereof established untill a regulation as above should take place, and as in duty bound we your humble petitioners shall ever pray &c &c —

John McDonald James Roberson Benjamin Boon {} Haiser Joseph Evans John Robins Jeremiah {ink spot} Stephen Roberson Wm Sinclare William Evins Thomas Caltahon Jeams Handerson John Robins George Smith William Livingston Thomas Livingston

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John	McDonald
James	Roberson
Benjamin	Boon
????	Haiser
Joseph	Evans
John	Robins
Jeremiah	{ink spot}
Stephen	Roberson
Wm	Sinclare
William	Evins
Thomas	Caltahon
Jeams	Handerson
John	Robins
George	Smith
William	Livingston
Thomas	Livinsgton

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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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