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Memorial of a Convention of Delegates of Mississippi Territory, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 100
Scope and Contents Report of the committee to whom was referred a memorial of a convention of delegates from fifteen counties in the Mississippi Territory, praying that the said territory may be admitted as a state entire and without division; accompanied with a bill for the admission of the people of the Mississippi Territory into the Union, &c. January 17, 1817. Read, and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C. : William A. Davis, 1817]. 7 p. Shaw 42725Includes (p. 6-7) a letter from Josiah...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Sarah Deweas, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 101
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,...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Louis Charles de Blanc, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 102
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In Senate of the United States. : January 15, 1817. : The Committee of Claims, on the petition of Louis Charles de Blanc, report.[Washington, D.C. : William A. Davis, 1817]. 1 sheet ([1] p.) Shaw 42493.

Concerning the petitioner's claim for a grant of land for his wife, "the sister and sole lawful heiress of the late Chevalier Derneville, a captain of a company of French chasseurs in the Revolutionary War, who was killed in storming Savannah."

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Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of James Humes, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 103
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In Senate of the United States. : January 16, 1817. : The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of James Humes, collector of the revenue for the 6th district of Pennsylvania, report. [Washington, D.C. : William A. Davis, 1817]. 5 p. Shaw 42497

Concerning the petitioner's claim for commissions for internal duties collected by him in 1814 but not paid to the Treasury until January 3, 1815.

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Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petitions of the Inhabitants of Buffalo and the Niagara Frontier, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 104
Scope and Contents Report of the select committee appointed on the 20th December, last, on the petitions of inhabitants of Buffalo, and the Niagara frontier, in the state of New-York; accompanied with a "Bill for the relief of certain sufferers in the late war, between the United States and Great Britain." January 23, 1817. Read, and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C. : William A. Davis, 1817] 2 p. Shaw 42732Concerns compensation for private property destroyed on the Niagara frontier during...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Caleb Nichols, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 105
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Report of the Committee of Claims on the Petition of Caleb Nichols, Accompanied With a Bill for His Relief. January 27, 1817, Ordered to Be Printed. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 2 p. Shaw 42689

Asking for compensation from damage done by American shelling of his store and office in Plattsburgh, NY during the war of 1812.

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Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of William Miller, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 106
Scope and Contents Report of the Committee on the Public Lands, on the petition of William Miller and others, by their attorney, Josiah S. Johnston. January 29, 1817. Read and ordered to be printed. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 5 p. Shaw 42724Concerning the claim of "the executors of Alexander Futton, the executors of Levi Wells, the executors of Hatch Dent, William Miller, William Barrow, Josiah S. Johnston, George Matthias, John and Leonard Compton, Isaac H. Robinet, and Chew and...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Memorial of the Merchants of the City of New-York, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 107
Scope and Contents In Senate of the United States. February 3, 1817. Ordered to be printed for the use of the Senate. To the honourable the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States in Congress assembled. The memorial of the merchants of the city of New-York respectfully represents. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 8 p. Shaw 42517.Concerning the petitioners' prayer that Congress take action to protect American importers and textile manufactures.Signed on p....
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Anthony Buck, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 108
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Report of the Committee of Commerce and Manufactures on the petition of Anthony Buck. February 5, 1817. Read and ordered to lie upon the table. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 8 p. Shaw 42694

Concerning the petitioner's prayer to be released from payment of a bond not to violate the embargo laws which he secured for James A. Stuart, captain of the schooner Sally Barker Windsor, in 1808.

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Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

Petition of Paul Robinson, 1817

 File — Box: 1, Folder: 109
Scope and Contents Report of the Committee of Claims, upon the petition of Paul Robinson, of Vermont. February 7, 1817. Considered; amended, and committed to a committee of the whole House to-morrow. [Washington, D.C. William A. Davis, 1817]. 2 p. Shaw 42691Concerning the petitioner's claim to be indemnified for a judgment made by arbitration against him in Canada for transporting a puncheon of rum under orders from Col. Isaac Clark, the rum having allegedly been illegally seized from Theophilus...
Dates: 1817
Found in: Watkinson Library - Archival Collections / Collection of Petitions to the United States Congress

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