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    CLAIMS & PETITIONS

     

    Peter Edwards, Nov. 21, 1831

    Affidavit: Joseph Joiner

    Affidavit: John Womack

    Affidavit: Levi Waller

     

    Levi Waller, Dec. 12

     Affidavit: Alexander P. Peete

    Affidavit: Thomas Porter

     

    Richard Porter, Dec. 12

    Affidavit: John Edmunds

     

    Piety Reese, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Howell Harris, Henry Moore, and Richard Moore

     

    Elizabeth Turner, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Sampson C. Reese

    and John H. Barnes

     

    Thomas Fitzhugh, Dec. 29

    Affidavit: Alexander P. Peete

    Supporting Affidavit, Petition of Elizabeth Turner Estate: Sampson C. Reese and John H. Barnes

     

    We Sampson C. Reese & John H. Barnes do hereby certify that on the 24th day of August 1831 we saw a negro boy by name Jordan the property of Elizabeth Turner decd., shot and killed he being known to be guilty of the late insurrection.

     

                      Given under our hands this 19th day of Decr. 1831                               Sampson C. Reese

     

                                                                                                                                         John H. Barnes

     

    (We the above subscribers do further certify and ajudge said negro Jordan to be worth the sum of Four Hundred Dollars. Given under our Hands this 19th Decr. 1831.

                                                                                               Sampson C. Reese

     

                                                                                               John H. Barnes

     

    Sworn and subscribed to before me Wm. L. Everitt a justice of the peace for the County of Southampton this 19th day of Decr. 1831.

                                                                                               Wm. L. Everitt