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MISSISSIPPI TERRITORY
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honourable body Toward Widows and Orphans made by the death of husband or Fathers in the actual service of the United States Donations to the heirs of such persons would relieve many from distress within our vicinity In order that your honourable body may fully understand the nature of our petition as relates to widows and orphans we further beg that those men who have died natural deaths in service from long marches Inclement weather unwholsome food and various other causes which they would not have been Exposed to at home, may also Embrace that part of the petition which asks for Donations, a number of the heirs of such persons or their parent prior to his diseace have made Payments on Publick Lands but are now left without the means of accumulating a solitary Cent?In compliance to the foregoing your petitioners will as In duty bound Ever pray 34 19th January 1815 Camp Pearl River Geo H. Nixon Lt Col	Matthew Parham
" See legislative memorial, Dec. 27, 1814, A.S.P., Pub. Lands, II, 898; and memorial, no date, 1815, post, p. 501.
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