To this unconstitutional document were attached the names of nearly every officer in the together with the names of hundreds of others.

It was by this band of murderers that your memorialists in the year 1833 were plundered of their <​our their​> property and robbed of their <​our their​> peaceble homes. It was by them that their fields were laid waste their houses burned and their men women and children to the number of about twelve hundred persons banished as exiles from the while others were cruelly murdered by their hands.

<​second,​> After our expulsion from we settled in on the opposite side of the where we purchased lands both from the old settle[r]s and from the land office but soon we were again violently threatened by mobs and were obliged to leave our homes and seek out a new location.

<​Third,​> Our next settlement was in where we purchased the most of the land in of <​in​> said besides the most <​a part​> of the lands in and Carroll Counties These counties were almost intirely in a wild & uncultivated state but by the persevering industry of our citizens large & extensive farms were opened in every direction well stocked with numerous flocks and herds We also commenced settlements in several other counties of the and once more confidently hoped to enjoy the hard earned fruits of our labor unmolested. But our hopes were soon blasted The cruel and murderous spirit which first began to manifest itself in the constituted authorities and inhabitants [p. 3]