Greene, Catharine Littlefield (1755-1814) [Petition of Catharine Littlefield Greene]
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Gilder Lehrman Collection #: GLC02437.04528 Author/Creator: Greene, Catharine Littlefield (1755-1814) Place Written: New York, New York Type: Manuscript document Date: 4 March 1790 Pagination: 4 p. : docket ; 31.9 x 20.2 cm. Order a Copy
Petition to the House of Representative and the Senate on behalf of Catharine Littlefield Greene for money due to her late husband from the government. States that in General Greene's pursuit for indemnification from the United States government Green "instituted suites for the recover of the bonds and Mortgages by him received of Messrs Banks and Company as collateral securities, but his designs in this and all other earthly respects were frustrated by his untimely death. That the suits for the recovery of the said bonds and other collateral securities have been protracted by the death of the debtors and various other circumstances entirely without the controul [sic] of your petitioner..." States that not only will the estates given to Greene's late husband by the state of South Carolina and Georgia, but his paternal estate will "be legally wrester from your Petitioner and her children, in order to satisfy those obligations which her late husband was constrained to enter into for the public service, whereby your Petitioner and her helpless children will be exposed to all the bitter effects of poverty..." Seeks relief from the government to assume payment of obligations. Docketed by Henry Knox.
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