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TEXAS INDIAN ;-, APERS, 1860-1916
Harman Fery
W. B. Sullivan Robert Price
P. H. Johnson M.D.
[Endorbed] Petition of
Citizens of Burleson Co. to relieve Wm Price from Military Duty.
No. 49 PETITION FFOM WASHINGTON COUNTY TO F. R. LUBBOCK (1862 or 1863] To His Excellency F. R. Lubbock Governor of the State of Texas The Undersigned Citizens of the County of Washing- ton residing within and near the town of Chapel Hill would state that there is in this section of country a very large slave population and that nearly all our citizens subject to military duty have gone into the service leaving many plantations with- out any overseer or other person to superintend and manage the negroes thereon, and that one of our citizens R F Harris who is between the ages of 18 and 35 years and liable to be forced into the service has a pack of negro dogs which is of great service in keeping the negroes in subjection and without which the community would be subject to frequent disturbances and outbreaks among them- wherefore they ask that the said R F Harris be released from military duty and that his name be erased from the muster roli.
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M. W. Baker John H Stone Joseph Toland D. C. Garrison J. H. McLaran John S. Smith James M Pre~ler
W.W. Bell Jethro Atkinson James B. Lil!ard J W Routt BR Thomas J. T. Spann T. G. Banks JG Hunt T Wooldridge A. A. Hammond EA Gause R. H. Felder
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W. L. Rogers R W Chap-pell N Kavanangh R W. Kerman J N Chadwick
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