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Scope and Contents Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims on the petition of Sarah Deweas [i.e. Dewees] and others, for payment for property destroyed by the enemy in the Revolutionary War. January 17, 1817. Read and referred to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817] 4 p. Shaw 42710.Concerning the petitioner's claim for compensation for the destruction of houses and other property belonging to her late husband, William Dewees,...