Petition of W. P. Brown and Others to U.S. Congress, [19 February 1849]1
To the Honorable the Sennate & House of Representatives of the United StatesThe undersigned Petitioners would respectfully represent to your Honorable Boddy that Coonrod Summers a native of Germany & now a citizen of the United States has been blind for manyy years & until within a year past has supported himself by traveling the country and
playing upon his Harp by the aid of a generous sister as a guide; that sister has
now left him and in addition to this one-ayed and infirm Father that he has hitherto supported still depends upon his exertions
for Subsistance Your Petitioners would therefore ask your Honnorable Body in consideration of his destitute condition & severe affliction to pass a law
to [...?]
^grant^ the said Coonrod Summers a hundred and Sixty acres of the Public lands belonging
to the United States and situated in the county of Woodford & state of Illinois which by the aid of his manny Sympathising friends and neighbors can be put in cultivation & construct him a home and as in
duty bound your Petitioners will ever pray &c[etc.]2
| W P. Brown | [?] [Behman?] |
| David Irving | T. Cross |
| John Clark | [?] [ ?] |
| Peter Engle | Jacob Joerger |
| Adam [Wile?] | Christian Gingrich |
| [?] | Jakob [De?] |
| Christoph Heberle | [?] [Streit?] |
| Charles Moliter | Michael [?] |
| Joseph Wenkler | [?] |
| Joseph [?] | Peter Engle |
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| Joseph [Bouhmann?] | John J. Perry |
| John Verekler | Andrew Cress |
| John Engle | Benjn W [Kindy?] |
| [Jakob Bouhman?] | Thos P. Sunderland |
| A Brown | Joseph Morley |
| G. W. Parke | |
| Edward Kipp | |
| J. B. Holland | |
| Joseph [Bürsky?] | |
| Robert Jones | |
| Michal [Ahr?] | |
| A. I. Blakeslee | |
| Sobieski Dye | |
| R. S. Cassell | |
| Abram Grove | |
| Henry Grove | |
| P H. Willard | |
| Asahel Bingham | |
| William McCoy | |
| J. W. Mcarten | |
| Benson D Wood | |
| John W Reynolds | |
| James M Coy | |
| Hiram A [Cool?] |
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[ docketing
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Ill[Illinois]
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02/19/1849
02/19/1849
February 19. 1849 Referred to the Committee on Public Lands.
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I personally know Conrad Summers, named in, this petition, that he is blind, and that
most of the statements of said petition are true.
A Lincoln51Abraham Lincoln wrote two instances of docketing on page three of this document, and
an endorsement on page four. Lincoln presented this petition in the U.S. House of
Representatives on February 19, 1849, and the House referred it to the Committee on
Public Lands. It does not appear that the committee acted upon the petition.
U.S. House Journal. 1849. 30th Cong., 2nd sess., 475.
Autograph Document Signed, 4 page(s), RG 233, Entry 367: Records of the U.S. House of Representatives, Thirtieth Congress, 1847-1849, Records of Legislative Proceedings, Petitions and Memorials, Resolutions of State Legislatures, and Related Documents Which Were Referred to Committees, 1847-1849, NAB.