Bolivar County GenWeb
To His Excellency Andrew Johnson,
President of the United States
The Petition of Daniel P. Perkins, a citizen of Bolivar County in the state of
Mississippi would respectfully
show that - your petitioner is a married man, has a wife and an
adopted son, he is 32 years of age.
Your petitioner is an applicant for
special amnesty provided in the proclamation of Mar. 29, 1865. Your petitioner is not included in any of the
excepted classes named therein unless he is embraced by the 13th exception
relative to parties owning more than twenty thousand dollars of taxable
property. Your petitioner owns (1400)
fourteen hundred acres of land in Bolivar County, Mississippi, which is at
present unprotected by a levee. Also several mules, meat cattle and c. The stock however being
very limited and entirely inadequate to cultivate the plantation.
He has been living upon his
plantation during the entire rebellion and is still living there. He has not been in the armies of the
Confederate State or held any kind of office under the so called Confederate
Government. That during the rebellion he
paid taxes, tithes and c. to the offices of the Confederate state as he was
required by them to do. Petitioner has
taken the amnesty oath in good faith and intends without mental reservation of
any kind to abide by and keep the same.
He is now and expects to remain hereafter a loyal and law abiding,
orderly and peaceful citizen of the United States and he respectfully asks for
full amnesty and restoration to all his rights of ?? and property in as full and ample a manner as they
heretofore existed.
No portion of the property of the
petitioner is in the possession of the authorities of the United States nor
have any steps been taken to subject it or any.