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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

    Petition of Elizabeth Turner Estate, December 29, 1831

     

    To the General Assembly of Virginia,

     

                      The Petition of the administrator, and distributer of Elizabeth Turner decd. respectfully represents, that a likely, + therefore valuable slave, of the undivided estate of the said [illegible], by the name of Jordan undid himself with the band of insurgents, which lately arose in the county of Southampton, and was one of those concerned in the perpetration of those horrible scenes which then occurred. That he was shot by the white persons who happily suppressed that insurrection, but without any legal trial before a court of law, so that your petitioner will sustain the entire loss of his value, to which they would of course have been entitled, had his death been adjudged in the regular mode, unless compensation shall be provided by law, which is respectfully prayed +c

     

                                                                            The admr. + distributor of

                                                                            Elizabeth Turner decd.

     

    [other side of petition]

    Petition of the representative

    of Elizabeth Turner decd.

     

    Dec. 29th 1831

    refd to select

               Comee

     

    Wm. H. Broadnax

     

    Jany 3.  Rejected