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United States To Anna Reed of Tusquittee Dr
For 3 cows & calves $36.00
&one yearling $4.00
and one cow. $11.00
For 100 head of hogs large and small = fifty of them grown and worth $6 a head $300.00
and the other fifty were sows and pigs and shoats, some of them worth 4 or 5. dollars and some half a dollar, on an average worth $ 2 1/2 a head $125.00

$476.00


all taken by white men citizens of the united states about four years ago, to pay a debt to some white men due by one of Claimants uncles which claimant was not bound to pay and never did promise to pay -

Came Anne Reed and makes oath that she owned the above cattle and hogs and raised them all and had a fine stock of hogs and in the fall of
1834 she went over to Franklin in Macon County and while she was gone some white men citizens of the united states came to her place and took all the said cattle to pay a debt due by her uncle David Reed to some other white men and when she came home


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and found the cattle had been taken she went to get them back and during her absence that time the same set of white men citizens of the united states came and took all her hogs to pay some old debt due by her said uncle David Reed to some white men = affiant had such bad luck in trying to get her cattle that she thought she would fail to get her hogs but she finally went and her Father went with her and pursued the men three or four days who drove off the hogs and followed them out of the nation towards Charlestown and finally [added text: claimant ] gave them up = affiant does not think her uncle owed money enough to take so much property and if he did she never did promise to pay it nor was she bound to pay it, = affiant states that her uncle was a poor man and had no hogs and was at work for one David England and three white men must have known he did not own the cattle or the hogs and that they were taking them wrongfully and that her hogs were worth the [unclear text: prices ] charged


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for them, and her cattle were of the number and description and worth the prices she has charged for them - and her amount is just &true
Sworn to & subscribed before me
Sept. [September] 1838
[Signed] Jay Hicks one of the Comt [Committee]
[Signed] Anna Reed her X mark

Jessee [unclear text: Musrat ] and William make oath that Anna Reed owned the said cattle and know she owned fifty head of full grown hogs, and as many or more than 50 head of sows, pigs and shoats and know that the Grand Mother [Grandmother] of Anna had given her some stock to raise from and Anna had raised those cattle and hogs from those given to her by her Grand Mother [Grandmother] [unclear text: Naun nee ] and she had a fine stock and they never hea [added text: r ] d of her promising to pay any of her uncle's debts, and do not think she [illegible text] promised to pay any of them. for she [deleted text: lived ] never lived with her uncle, nor her uncle with her = affiants state that same time in
1834 some white men in the absence of Claimant came and drove off her cattle


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and when [added text: she ] came [added text: home ] she went after them and again when she was gone the same set of white men citizens of the United States came and gathered up her hogs and drove them all off clear out of the county and they know that Claimant and her Father followed after the hogs some distance but Claimant did not get either the cattle or the hogs, again, and think the cattle and hogs were worth the prices charged for them =
Sworn to & subscribed before me
Sept. [September] 1838
[Signed] Jay Hicks one of the Comt [Committee]
[Signed] Jessee Musrat his X mark
[Signed] William his X mark

Anna Reed of Tus=quittee Claim
$476


[Signed] Polly Peak her P mark Interpreter
Claims [illegible text]



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Came Jerry Tucker and Susannah Silversmith and make oath that they have known Anna Reed ever since she was a little girl that some 10 or 12 years ago her Father and Mother neglected her and failed to do any thing [anything] for her and her Grand Mother [Grandmother], on her [illegible text] took her and raised her and gave her a little stock of hogs and cattle to raise from and she took good care of them untill [until] about four years ago and she had more than one hundred head of hogs and 8 or 9 head of cattle and some white men took them all away and Anna never got them again =
Sworn to & subscribed before me
25th Sept. [September] 1838
[Signed] D.M. Foreman M Comt [Member Committee]
[Signed] Jerry Tucker his X mark
[Signed] Susannah Silversmith her X mark



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This Claim has been Examined by the Committee allowed and reduced To $51 -- on the grounds that part of the Members knew that she had not all this property [deleted text: ]
Ocbr [October] . 2 1838.

[Signed] D.M Foreman Prest Protem Comt. [President Protem Committee]
Examined and approved by the [illegible text] for $51- this
3rd Day of October 1838



No 1333 - --
Anna Reed of Tus=quittee
Claim $476. Reduced to $51.
Examined & approved by the [illegible text]
3rd October 1838
Admitted

[Signed] Polly Peak her P mark Interpreter
Claim [illegible text]