[ Full-text transcription of: Petition of Thomas Bohannon of Ray County asking compensation for timber destroyed by the Missouri Volunteers. ]
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Petition of
Thomas Bohannon of
the
asking compensation
for timber destroyed
by
the
No 8 –
Refd to Comtee on
Claims –
Jan. 22nd.
To the honorable the Legislature for
Your Petitioner Thomas Bohannon would respect-
fully represent to your honorable body—that
during the late campaign against the Mormons
your petitioner then residing in
ered great damage and loss from a large number
of troops being quartered on your petitioners premises
That for several weeks during the winter season Many
hundred troops were encamped on your petitioners land-
and that they burnt and otherwise destroyed a large
number of rails and a great quantity of timber belon
ging to your petitioner—that your petitioner was
put to great trouble and expense on account of
the troops above mentioned. And as there is no provision
made for compensating your petitioner for these
several losses, he [fervently] prays your honorable
body to adopt some measure for his relief and as
in duty bound he will [illegible] pray &c
&c an additional fact to the foregoing your peti
tioner would further present that he then lived near
(within one mile) the town of
that account much more valuable than they would
otherwise be.
Thos [J.] Bohannon