FL-2-51 – Trail of Tears Claims

Series

Book

2

Claim Number

51

Claimants

Claim Date

4/5/1842

Eastern Residence

near Ross Landing

Type of Claim

I&S

Present Residences

on waters of Illinois

Districts

Agents

Witnesses

Pigeon, Lutitia Eldridge (on 4/7), George McPherson (on 4/7 son of claimant), W S Adair (on 3/20/45)

Perpetrators

Fryar Reid, Pratt Joseph, Loftes Ruse, Hafley Cooper

Notes/Comments

Some testimony before commissioners in 1847. His gun was takn by his father to John Browns. James Adair, now dead, told him it was taken from Brown by a white man.