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Sold by II Cowperthwait & Co. Chestnut ab. 6th St. Philda.

Your Petitioner shows that he never left the Comforts of his home in Vicksburg, with his Daughters, dependent solely upon him for care and protection, to subject himself to the many discomforts and perplexities of an uncertain residence in the interior of the State - willingly - but was impelled to the temporary change, by the bitter force of necessity and under a condition of circumstances over which could exercise no control, and even as it was Your Petitioner shows that he had not the most remote idea of abandoning his Residence in Vicksburg, but at the time he left for Jackson, he fully expected & so designed - to return and reoccupy his dwelling with his family, and in order that it might be properly cared for during his constrained absence, he left a family in possession of it. He never calculated upon and of course did not foresee the subsequent events, which have became a part of the history of the War - and in their results prevented his return home until the Close of the War, But he reiterates that in no sense did he abandon his said property, it constituted almost his sole Estate as it does now, and if deprived of it [[strikethrough]] ne [[/strikethrough]], the few years [[strikethrough]] he [[/strikethrough]] of life that may yet be allotted him, would be a period of unqualified dependance.

Your Petitioner shows that his age has