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Flat Rock Randolphhu
County Alabama
Beat 12

General Swayne 
Montgomery Ala

We the undersigned petitioners residing in the above named beat and county above written being desirous of informing you of the true condition of the poor in this beat have thought best to do it by a petition they are almost destitute of any thing to sustain life upon they have neither corn nor meat nor neither have they the means to obtain them with nor is their any one in the community able to assist them for the number in this beat is too numerous for the beat to sustain itself without assistance and if you be so kind as to furnish this county any more rations you will please have the rations intended for this beat directed to West Point Georgia to Jonah Green as agent for Flat Rock beat  If you will appoint us an agent in the beat he will know the true condition of each applicant for rations and the distance is so great to Wedowee that the classes who are aptest to draw namely women and the aged cannot obtain them as their only means of getting these are to go after them on foot  This beat has only drawn four hundred pounds [[strikethrough]] never drawn any rations [[/strikethrough]] as yet from Wedowee we humbly ask you to grant our request by appointing us an agent in the beat and Send us help Soon or extreme Suffering will soon follow.