Item 84: An Act for the Relief of Wyoming Suffering During the Revolutionary War, Suggested Report, (removed to Legal Box #1) , [ca. 1837 December 29]
Item — Box: 16, Folder: 124
Dates
- [ca. 1837 December 29]
Creator
- [Pos. Ross, William] (Person)
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Extent
1 items
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Type of Material:
Act/Proposal
Measurements:
Good, only observable issues are the discoloration of the paper and that most of the words are difficult to read.
Measurements:
6 ¾ in. x 8 in.
Title:
Act for the Relief of Wyoming Suffering
Description:
The following item depicts a suggested report to be made to congress for the relief of those who suffered at Wyoming during the Revolutionary War. The suggested report requests that congress afford some relief for the families of the men who were residing in Wyoming valley during the Revolutionary war, including their widows, heirs, and legal representatives. This relief would be a tract of land, approved by the President of the United States, which would contain 150,000, by which a committee appointed by the President would hear claims and distribute them accordingly. This item does not state where the lands would be located, but in comparing documents that have the official act published, it is likely they are the lands named along the Susquehanna river.
The date for the item has been estimated by comparison with a document found on Google Books, titled Wyoming Claims--Revolution Petition of the Sufferers at Wyoming, During the Revolutionary War, for Relief. December 29, 1837. Referred to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, which provides the same date. Our manuscript mentions that this version is a suggested report, and contains differences in language from the final report in the secondary sources. We have inferred the circa date as we believe that this document is an earlier edition.
The report is possibly written by William Ross, with Anderson Dana as a secondary name on the document. This has been estimated by a comparison with the final report, digitized in History of Wyoming: In a Series of Letters, from Charles Miner, to His Son William Penn Miner, by Charles Miner, which shows William Ross and Anderson Dana as the signed creators.
This item was originally curated with Series II: the McClintock Family Series, as part of a binder, original number 1.6 Binder: Andrew McClintock Correspondence and Biographical Materials and Photo, 1831-1881. The binder was dissolved in processing the collection and items pertaining to the Susquehanna Claim and General Wyoming Valley Collection moved to corresponding collections.
Transcription:
Front Page:
An act for the relief of the suffers (sic) [sufferers] at Wyoming during the Revolutionary War. Their widows, heirs and legal representatives Be it enacted, &c [etcetera] that a tract of land not Exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres be “and the same in hereby appropriated for the sufferers at Wyoming during the Revolutionary War, their widows, heirs, or legal Representatives to be laid off for their use under the authority and by direction of the President of the United States. And be in further enacted by the authority aforesaid — that the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorize(d) to appoint three persons as Commissioners to sit at Wyoming and to hear and determine on the Claims ^that may be made under this act of the Wyoming sufferers and to render search [amend(?)] and distribution of the lands hereby granted, as shall be dec[ree]d joint and equitable If the Hon[orable] Committee concur, a brief sketch of a Report and Bill are submitted; both with the greatest defference (sic) [deference]
Back Page: Act For the relief of Wyoming Suffering +c [etcetera] Suggested Report
An act for the relief of the suffers (sic) [sufferers] at Wyoming during the Revolutionary War. Their widows, heirs and legal representatives Be it enacted, &c [etcetera] that a tract of land not Exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand acres be “and the same in hereby appropriated for the sufferers at Wyoming during the Revolutionary War, their widows, heirs, or legal Representatives to be laid off for their use under the authority and by direction of the President of the United States. And be in further enacted by the authority aforesaid — that the President of the United States be and he is hereby authorize(d) to appoint three persons as Commissioners to sit at Wyoming and to hear and determine on the Claims ^that may be made under this act of the Wyoming sufferers and to render search [amend(?)] and distribution of the lands hereby granted, as shall be dec[ree]d joint and equitable If the Hon[orable] Committee concur, a brief sketch of a Report and Bill are submitted; both with the greatest defference (sic) [deference]
Back Page: Act For the relief of Wyoming Suffering +c [etcetera] Suggested Report
Creator
- [Pos. Ross, William] (Person)
Repository Details
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84 W South St.
Wilkes-Barre PA 18701 US
570-408-2000
570-408-7823 (Fax)
ask.archives@wilkes.edu