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To the Honl Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assambled
The undersigned a Citizen of Kendall County (formerly Laselle County) in the State
of Illinois respectfully sheweth that at the Commencement of the late War with the
hostile band of Sac and Fox Indians he was a resident Citizen of the said County
of Laselle on the waters of Fox River that he had been residing there for some time
and was by Occupation Farmer and that immediately after the battle on Sycamore Creek
and before your memorialist had time to remove his property the hostile Indians made
an incursion into the neighbourhood of your memorialist and destroyed the property
of your memorialist insomuch that he hath sustained a loss to the amount of One Hundred
Dollars ($100) and inasmuch as the said losses occured to him in consequence of the
want of that protection which the Government in good faith is bound to afford him
as a citizen of the united States he would therefore pray your Honl body to make him an appropriation to indemnify him for the losses he has sustained
as above stated and your petitioner Will Ever &c &c
William Brook[ endorsement
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We the undersigned Citizens of the County of Kendall (late Laselle) in the State of
Illinois do hereby certify that we are personally acquainted with William Brook whose
name appears to the foregoing petition and unhesetatingly state that the matters and
things set forth in the foregoing petition are strictly true that the losses sustained
by the said William Brook in the late war with the hostile Sac and Fox Indians Were
equal to the sum set forth in said petition
| W. Vernon | Samuel Williams |
| Bethuel Clark | Freeman Sherma |
| William [Benny?] | James Ford |
| Wm Haymond | |
| R S Duryea | Robert Ford |
| Norman Dodge | Jacob Howard |
| Nelson Howe | H. Elerding |
| R. Casler | F. Elerding |
| F. F. Winchel | W B Boyd |
| G W. Johnson | A D Lemans |
| John Ford | [Duncan?] Misner |
| Stewart Hanna | Wm & F. Jones |
| Francis Evans | [?] Patterson |
| James Grace | [Hon?] Mandherte |
| James Evans | John G Chambers |
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| M. W. [Tuly?] | |
| H J Metcalf | |
| W R. Murray | |
| Wm H Cottrell | |
| G W Jones | |
| John Allen | |
| John Lutyens |
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Wm Brook
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A Schedule of the property belonging to William Brooks which was destroyed by the
Sac and Fox Indians during the Indian War in may Eighteen Hundred and Thirty two [Vst?]
| 1 Work Horse | $60.00 |
| Wearing apperal | 40.00 |
| $100.00 |
before me William Vernon a Justice of the peace in and for the County of Kendall and
State of Illinois personally appeared William Brooks a resident of said County (formerly
Laselle County) in the State of Illinois who being duely sworn declared that the above
described property was all destroyd or driven off by the Indians during the Indian war in the year of our Lord Eighteen
Hundred and Thirty two
William Brook[ certification
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Justice of the peace
Sworn to before me this Twenty fourth day of January Eighteen Hundred and forty four
W. VernonJustice of the peace
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| Kendall County |
before me William Vernon a Justice of the peace for said County personally appeared
George Hollinback who being duely sworn declared that to the best of his Knowledge
the property set forth in the above statement of William Brooks was all destroyed
or driven off during the Indian War in the year of our Lord Eighteen hundred and Thirty
two
George Hollenback[ certification
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Justice of the peace
Sworn to before me this Twenty fourth day of January Eighteen Hundred and forty four
W. VernorJustice of the peace
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| KendallCOUNTY, |
I,Marcus A. Fenton, Clerk of the County Commissioners’ Court of said county, do hereby certify thatWilliam Vernonwhose name is subjoined to the proof or acknowledgment of the annexedInstrument of Writingwas, at the time of taking the same, an acting Justice of the Peace, duly commissioned
and sworn and authorized to take the same, and full faith and credit is due and of
right should be given to all his official acts as such Justice.
^I Also Certify, that the hand writing of the within Justice is genuine,^ In testimony whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of said county,
this25thday ofJanuaryA.D. 1844.
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Mr Brooks
$100.
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Handwritten 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,Â