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Contains 222 Results:

Petition of Oliver Pollock, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 43
Scope and Contents Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of Oliver Pollock. : February 9, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. 4 p. Shaw 33461Concerning the petitioner's claim to indemnity for "the loss of sundry debts ... due to him in the Havanna, which were attached by order of the Spanish governor Unzagee, in May, 1784, to satisfy the claims of Mons. Bougard and...
Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of James Williams, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 44
Scope and Contents

Report of the Committee on Pensions and Revolutionary Claims, on the petition of James Williams. : February 16, 1814. Read, and ordered to lie on the table. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. [4] p. Shaw 33458.

Concerning the petitioner's claim to additional compensation for service in the Continental Army.

Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of James Doyle, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 45
Scope and Contents Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of James Doyle. February 16, 1814. Read, and together with the bill herewith reported, committed to a committee of the whole House on Friday next. Washington City [D.C.]: Printed by Roger C. Weightman., 1814. [4] p. Shaw 33411. Concerning the petitioner's claim for compensation for services rendered and expenses incurred in bringing certain criminals to justice "at the request and solicitations of the late United States'...
Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of James Patton, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 46
Scope and Contents

Report of the Committee of Ways and Means, on the petition of James Patton. February 19, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. printers., 1814. [4] p. Shaw 33441

Concerning the petitioner's prayer "to be relieved from a judgment obtained against him, on three revenue bonds executed in the year 1804 ... as security for Wilson and Estin."

Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Revision of the Militia Laws...1812, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 47
Scope and Contents Report of the committee on so much of the message of the president, as relates to a revision of the militia laws, : on a letter from the secretary of War, transmitting a statement of the claims exhibited by the state of Virginia, and which have been disallowed on a settlement made at the War Office, 17th November, 1812. February 22, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Monday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers., 1814. 4 p. Shaw 33465...
Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Revision of the Militia Laws - Indiana Territory, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 48
Scope and Contents Report of the committee on so much of the message of the president as relates to a revision of the militia laws, on the memorial of the legislature of the Indiana Territory, praying compensation for their militia called into the service of the United States, for the protection of the frontiers of said territory against the ravages of the enemy. : February 24, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. 6p....
Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Zachariah Roberts, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 49
Scope and Contents

Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of Zachariah Roberts. February 26, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Tuesday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. [4] p. Shaw 33427

Concerning the petitioner's claim to compensation for "services rendered the United States as an assistant quarter master to the third brigade at Maryland drafted militia ... last summer."

Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Payment for Impressed Property, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 50
Scope and Contents

Letter from the secretary of war to the chairman of the Committee of Claims, accompanying a bill to provide for the payment of persons whose property shall be impressed into the U. States' service. February 28, 1814. Read, and ordered to be printed. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. [4] p. Shaw 33283 Signed in print J. Armstrong.

The Secretary of War suggests steps to validate impressment claims.

Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of John Chalmers, Jun., 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 51
Scope and Contents Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of John Chalmers, Jun. ropemaker in Baltimore. November 7, 1814. Read and committed to a committee of the whole House on Thursday next. Washington City [D.C.]: : Printed by Roger C. Weightman. 1814. 4p. Shaw 33413.Concerning the petitioner's claim to reimbursement for out of pocket expenses paid by him in the manufacture of cordage for the Navy after the undelivered rope and ropewalk were deliberately destroyed during the...
Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Inhabitants of Knox County, Kentucky, 1814

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 52
Scope and Contents

Report of the Committee of Claims, on the petition of sundry inhabitants of Knox County, in the state of Kentucky. November 5, 1814. Read, and committed to a committee of the whole House on Wednesday next. Washington [D.C.]: A. & G. Way, printers. 1814. 6p Shaw 33421.

Concerning the petitioners' prayer for compensation for homes and crops destroyed under authority of the War Dept. for being settled on Indian territory.

Dates: 1814
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

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