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Chesconessex lands and by her lone exertions, wholly inadequate, unless the parcel of land called Woodburn shall be restored to her. She therefore respectfully prays that it may be restored to her and her child with rents back to the time of the death of her husband, and with compensation for the damage done thereto by the occupation of the U. States for the following reasons, to wit: 

1st: It was purchased by her husband mainly by stocks or other credits given him by her father upon her marriage. It is, as against the application of any laws for the punishments of crimes, though not as against her child as heir of her father or his creditors, her maiden land. All of the Husband's and father's own property proper has already been taken and swept away. This only remains for a home not only for the wife and the infant, but for the paternal grand mother who was stripped of all her personal property and has only her dower left in the Chesconessex land. 

2nd: Even if the place Woodburn cannot be considered in this light equitably or leniently by Government as your Memorialists maiden land, to be restored after the death of the husband; it is yet land belonging to the estate of a decedent who was never arrested or tried or convicted of any crime which could have corrupted his blood or destroyed dower or heirship in his lands. If no 

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