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Preemption Proof
State of Arkansas,
County of Hempstead,
United States of America
Be it remembered, that on the 14th day of December 1839, Asa Thompson of the
County of Pike personally appeared before me the undersigned, an acting
Justice of the Peace within and for the County of Hempstead & State of
Arkansas, and on his oath, deposes and says, That Robert McConnell
cultivated a tract of the public lands of the United States in the year
1833, to wit: a portion of the North East Quarter of Section Twelve, in
Township Eight, South of Range Twenty-Six West, in the District of Lands
subject to sale at Washington, Arkansas. That in said year, 1833, he the
said McConnell had in cultivation and under fence on said tract about eight
acres which he cultivated in corn. That, about the first of September in the
year 1833, he, this deponent, purchased said improvement of said McConnell,
with the crop thereon growing and immediately took possession of the same.
That the dwelling houses in which said McConnell resided and into which this
deponent removed were on an adjoining Quarter Section, to wit: on the
Northwest Quarter of fractional Section Seven, in Township Eight, South of
Range Twenty-five West. And this deponent says that he resided in the
dwelling houses, aforesaid, and had possession thereof, and that he also had
possession of and cultivated the Land, first above mentioned, on the 19th
day of June, 1834, and for some there or four years thereafter. This
deponent further says that he is the head of a family consisting of a wife
and six children, and further says not.
Asa Thompson
Sworn to & subscribed before me the 14th Decr., 1839.
R.L. Phillips, J.P.
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State of Arkansas,
County of Hempstead,
United States.
This day, James Hughes and John Hughes of lawful age, personally appeared
before me the undersigned, an acting Justice of the Peace, and on their
oaths depose and say: that they are personally well acquainted with Robert
McConnell & Asa Thompson, and that they know the above statement made and
sworn to by said Thompson to be strictly true, and further they say not.
John Hughes
James (his x mark) Hughes
Sworn to & subscribed to by & before me this 14th December 1839.
R.L. Phillips, J.P.
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Certificate 4297, Washington, Arkansas Land Office, Record Group 49,
National Arhives, Washington, D.C.
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