John Bell Sr. 1838 Claim
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John Bell, Senior
Transcribed by Stuart Marshall
“[No. 911] The committee for the adjustment of claims under the Cherokee Treaty
The petition of John Bell Senior Respectfully sheweth
That he is entitled to the sum of One Thousand dollars besides interest Thereon at 8 pr. cent. from the year 1830 to the present time—under that clause of the treaty which provides, payment for spoliation;
For that your petitioners having purchased from one Fredrick Hildzerbeck a negro man named Armistead which boy is a valuable blacksmith, and having so purchased the said negro, and having been here in the Cherokee nation he was the property of your petitioner unincumbered by any judgements of the courts of Georgia or any of the states, untill by the extension of the laws of Georgia over the Cherokee Nation, the said negro became subject to a Judgement an execution issued, and which Judgment and execution your petitioner was compelled to purchase and pay for, to save the said negro, from liability therefore And by which your petitioner is advised he is entitled to the amount thereof as Spoliation and loss sustained by him from the extension of the laws of Georgia Over the said Cherokee nation according to the annexed account.
Judgement
Henry Wolf vs. Frederick Hildzerbeck; In the Superior Court of Dekalb County Georgia
Principal $1000 $1000
Interest—from June 1830 560
$1560
All of which is respectfully submitted John Bell Senr. Georgia Cass County; Appeared in Person John Bell Senior and being sworn saith the several matters and things contained in the above petition are true to the best of his knowledge and belief
Sworn to & subscribed this 12 th Sept 1837 John Bell
J[ohn] Ridge Pres[ident] Committee
I John A Bell one of the committee do certify that I am acquainted with the facts stated in the foregoing petition and know them to be true
12 th Sept 1837
This claim is allowed by the com[mittee] with a reduction of $560.00 J.A. Bell Pres[ident] Com[mittee]
Feby 19 th 1838
I, John A. Bell, do certify that I was personally acquainted with Frederick Hildzerbeck, and with by pecuniary circumstances at the time …the judgment mentioned…and that he was insolvent and a citizen of the State of Kentucky at the time, and that nothing will be made out of him— J.A. Bell
Add (Allowed $850)
John A. Bell, being duly sworn, says he is acquainted with the circumstances on which his father bases a claim for Spoliation. The sum given by his father to buy up the execution on the negro, way to the best of his knowledge and belief, [page torn] a good horse [sa]ddle and bridle, worth say $100. T[he] matters were negotiated for John Bell Sr. by Joseph Crutchfeld. The negro was purchased before the extension of the Georgia laws, and the execution issued under that subs-sequent extension.
Sworn to & subscribed before me July 17, 1838 John A. Bell
James Liddell commissioner
[Claim rejected, March 6th , 1838; $850 allowed, July 13th , 1838]” - Title
- John Bell Sr. 1838 Claim
- Name of Claimant
- John Bell Sr.
- Name of Witness(es)
- John A. Bell
- Name of Agent/Clerk
- Joseph Crutchfield
- Amount
- 850.00
- Claim Perpetrator
- Frederick Hildzerbeck
- Date of Theft
- 12 September 1837
- Residence in the East (District)
- Dekalb County, Georgia
- Residence in the East (Place)
- Cass County, Georgia
- Amount of Item
- 1560.00
Part of John Bell Sr. 1838 Claim
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