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The Petition of Thomas Gann hereby showeth that at the time I settled at -lined out on the place in which I now live the Ridge had no Improvement at that place but he Sent from Seven to Nine Work hands laid down my fence and Commenced Clearing Around my plantation to the injury of Your petitioner I was advised to work on that the Ridge Would give out and quit the work he has quit this work & wishes to Sell the Improvement to the people I beg Your honourable body Whether it is right for a person to Quit his own place clear & surround another without the Consent of the Occupant and in duty bound your petitioner Will ever pray

                                                                                                                                Thos. Gann

To the Chiefs in Council & Committee

    Nov. 6th 1824

     The National Committee have taken up the within petition and it appears that a piece of ground adjoining one of Thos. Gann's fields, lying on the back part of said Gann's house on the west side of the hill ridge, being in dispute between said Gann and Major Ridge, it is therefore decided by the National Committee that Thos. Gann has the best right to improve and occupy said piece of land inasmuch as it adjoins his plantation; and that it would be unjust to suffer any person living at any distance from another to go and make improvements around the improvements of the other, so as to hem him or them up to their inconvenience and injury; 
    and -lined out But should there be any work or improvement done or made on the part of Major Ridge on the disputed ground, then in that case William Sticks, Walter S. Adair, & Samuel Adair, are hereby authorized and requested to make a valuation of the same, and said Gann shall be bound to pay unto Major Ridge the amount of such valuation: 
     It is also ordered by the Committee that a word scratched out lane be left through Gann's plantation, at such place as may suit the convenience of said Major Ridge & said Thomas Gann, lending to Major Ridge's house on oo.ya.killokee.
      By order of the National Committee
       John Ross, President
 Major Ridge's own residence was some 18 or 20 miles off -- a place belonging to him was within a short distance of the place belonging to Gann. This complaint