[Page 1 is a microfilm placeholder card reading "Illegible Text — Some or all of the pages of this file are wholly or in part illegible. We have not been able either to locate a better copy of the document, or to enhance its legibility electronically."] [Administrative notations at top of page: 1480 2 / 2^nd [undecipherable] personal [undecipherable] AJO – 155 / [undecipherable] March 4 1790] [ok] To the Honorable the Senate and the Honorable the House of Representatives of the United States in Congress Assembled the Petition of Catharine [undecipherable: probable reading "Greene"] widow of the late General Greene Humbly Sheweth, That the object on which her petition is founded is generally stated in the representation hereunto annexed made by her late husband, to the United States in Congress assembled on the 22 day of August 1785. That it will appear by the said representation, that it was the intention of her late Husband, to have ascertained the [undecipherable] on the transaction therein stated previously to his making application to the United States for indemnification — and in pursuing [undecipherable] this intention he instituted [strikethrough: such] suits for the recovery of the bonds and Mortgages by him received of a Mess.^rs Banks and Company as collateral securities, but his designs in this and all other earthly respects were frustrated by his untimely death. That the suits for the recovery of the said bonds and other collateral securities have been protracted by the death of the debtors and various other circumstances entirely without the controul of your petitioner. That while the recovery of the said bonds and other collateral securities are placed at a future distant period, and their amount uncertain not only the Estates conferred on her late husband by the munificent gratitude of the States of South Carolina and Georgia, but his [undecipherable] estate will [legally?] be [undecipherable] from your Petitioner and her Children, in order to satisfy those obligations which her late husband was constrained to enter into for the public service, whereby your Petitioner and her helpless children will be exposed to all the bitter effects of poverty. That your Petitioner, thus brings forward her Situation and that of her children and places the same [strikethrough: before the United States] —— [undecipherable] the firmest hope and expectation that the United States will after a [strikethrough: undecipherable] [full?] examination into the transaction stated in her late husbands representation, [undecipherable] an Act to indemnify her [estate?] and that of her children from the ruin which impends over it by the otherwise unavoidably [strikethrough: undecipherable] [undecipherable] payment of obligations entered [undecipherable lines] the United States, or in [fact?] [undecipherable] for her [undecipherable] children [undecipherable] [maintenance?] [undecipherable] the [undecipherable] [undecipherable] than appears [undecipherable] And your Petitioner as in duty bound, shall ever continue to pray. New York 4^th March 1790. [Endorsement, rotated]: [Petition?] [undecipherable] March 4 1790 [undecipherable]