A List of Claims for Improvements &c Continued
No. 939
The United States DO
To Young Bird of Hickory Log Dist
For 8 head of cattle estimated at | 96.00
Personally came before me Young Bird the claimant and solemnly affirmed that the above is a just account of property against the United States, which was stolen from him in said Dist, near Standing Peachtree on the Chattahoochee River by a whiteman citizen of the United States named William Heard and that the above is a reasonable price, and that he has never received any value for the same.
Affirmed to before me August 25th 1838
George Still Sr. Asst Agent for Collecting Claims
Young Bird his X mark
Personally came before me Thomas Blanket and Ned Blanket and affirmed that they are acquainted with the claimant and the above named cattle and that they saw said cattle of the claimant’s in a pen belonging to a whiteman by the name of Buck Heard about eight years ago and said cattle were in claimants mark by a split in each ear and that they told said Heard who said cattle belonged to, and he Heard said that he knew nothing about the cattle but he bought them from a Cherokee that did not tell the Cherokee’s name to us, and refused to give them up to claimant
Affirmed to before me this the 27th of August 1838
George Still Sr. Asst Agent for Collecting Claims
Thos. Blanket his X mark
Ned Blanket his X mark
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