____________________________________________________________________________ Preemption Proof State of Arkansas, County of Hempstead, Be it remembered, that on the twentieth day of May in the year 1839, Clement Davis of Pike County in the State of Arkansas personally came before me, the undersigned, a Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hempstead in the State, aforesaid, at Washington in the County of Hempstead, aforesaid, in the presence of the Register and Receiver of the Land office at Washington, Arkansas and being duly sworn, states on his oath: That, he is over twenty one years of age, to wit, about twenty six years of age, a married man, the head of a family consisting of his wife and one child; that in the year Eighteen hundred and thirty three he cultivated a portion of the Lands of the United States in a then unsurveyed Township, and that the Township was surveyed in the year 1837 and said improvement was found to be upon the North East quarter of Section seventeen in Township Eight South of Range twenty five west in the District of Lands subject to sale at Washington, Arkansas, and that in said year he cultivated on said tract, about eighteen acres, principally in corn and that he resided on said tract and had possession of the same on the nineteenth day of June, Eighteen hundred and thirty four and that he still resides on, has possession of, and cultivates the same. C. Davis Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th May 1839. R.L. Phillips, J.P. ____________________________________________________________________________ And at the same time and place and in the presence as within named, personally came John Hughes, James Hughes and S.B. Dickson, and being duly sworn state on oath, that, they are personally well acquainted with the within named Clement Davis and that they know the material matters stated and set forth in the within affidavit to be true in substance and in fact; & that he did cultivate about Eighteen acres on the tract in his affidavit mentioned and that he resided upon said tract and had possession of the same on the nineteenth day of June 1834; and that he still resides upon, has possession of, and cultivates the same. John Hughes Sion B. Dickson James Hughes Sworn to and subscribed before me this 20th May 1839. R.L. Phillips, J.P. ____________________________________________________________________________ Certificate 4025, Washington, Arkansas Land Office, Record Group 49, National Arhives, Washington, D.C. ____________________________________________________________________________ HTML file and design by David Kelley, 1997. All rights reserved.