Document 1:
Title: Petition of Ellen Harrison and William H. Y. Harrison, 13 August 1862
Date: August 13, 1862
Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 433, Reel 3. The original document is held in the Records of the District Courts of the United States, 1685–2004, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 21. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4314547 / MLR Number NC-2 33 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).
Document 2:
Title: Evidence Relating to the Petition of Ellen Harrison and William H. Y. Harrison, 13 August 1862
Date: August 13, 1862
Source Text: A microfilm reproduction of the original document held at the National Archives and Records Administration, Microcopy 520, Reel 6. The original document is held in the Records of the Accounting Officers of the Department of the Treasury, 1775–1978, National Archives and Records Administration, Record Group 217.6.5. Within the National Archives' Archival Description Catalog, see ARC Identifier 4644616 / MLR Number A1 347 (http://arcweb.archives.gov).
Civil War Washington ID: cww.01014
TEI/XML: cww.01014.xml
John N. Trook of Washington D.C. having claim to the service or labor of the undersigned, and having refused or neglected to file in your office the statement in writing or schedule provided for in the 9th section of the Act of Congress, entitled "An act for the release of certain persons held to service or labor in said District," approved April 16th, 1862, you will please file the annexed schedule in lieu thereof, in pursuance of the provisions of an act supplementary to said act which said last mentioned act was approved July 12th 1862. This petition schedule further states that the undersigned were residents of resided in said District since the on the and ha resided therein since the 16th day of April 1862, by and with the consent of their said master
| Name, | Age, | Sex, | Remarks, |
| Ellen Harrison | 40 years | female | dark |
| Wm H. Y. Harrison | 12 " | male | " |
The Commissioners, satisfied on the testimony of George Mattingly of the truth of the within statement, order the same to be so reported to the Clerk of the Circuit Court of the District of Columbia
Wm. R. Woodward
Clerk to Commissioners
William H. Y. Harrison
