Letter from Robert Black to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 30, 1860

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Letter from Robert Black to Mississippi Governor John J. Pettus; June 30, 1860

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Black, Robert Davis, Reuben, 1813-1890 Dillingham, James McWillie, William, 1795-1869 Pettus, John Jones, 1813-1867

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United States--Congress United States--Congress. House United States--General Land Office

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Bodies of Water--Alabama. Sipsey River Bodies of Water--Interstate. Sipsey Creek Mississippi--Lowndes County. Columbus Mississippi--Monroe County. Aberdeen Mississippi--Monroe County. Monroe County Mississippi--Monroe County. Splunge

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Splunge Mississippi June 30^th_,, 1860
Gov, John, J, Pettus

Dear Sir

I send you this note request-ing your advice concerning a certain Tract of land. By the hand of Hon. Reuben Davis of Aberdeen while in the House of Representatives US under date of March last I am informed that the Land Office department some time last year recomended to you or your Predecessor to relinquis to me the claim of this State to the NE ¹/₄ of SE ¹/₄ of Sec 31 in Township 12 S of Range 16 W

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lying on the Sipsey River in Monroe County and entered by me on the 19^th_,, Sept 1854 at the U.S Land Office in Columbus Mi

The above described tract of land was inad—vertantly Pattented to this State by the De-partmnt with the Swamp lands of the Sipsey Creek, the Pattent to the State was not granted till Some time after I entered it. The State afterwards sold it to James Dillingham, Who has the Equitable title to this piece of land? please give me some instructions upon this subject, Respectfully Robert Black

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Land sold by state as swamp land