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Herald Of The United States
Warren, Bristol County, Rhode Island
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On March 13 in Washington, a Senate resolution was introduced requesting the President to survey and grant a six-mile square township named Derry E from public lands to William Eaton, Presley N. O'Bannon, George Washington Mann, and three surviving volunteer marines for their patriotism and intrepidity in an expedition.
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DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.
WASHINGTON, MARCH 13.
A RESOLUTION has been introduced into the Senate, requesting the President of the United States to cause to be surveyed a Township of Land, of six miles square, to be called Derry E, within the limits of the public lands, and to grant the same to William Eaton, Presley N. O'Bannon, and George Washington Mann, and the three surviving marines, who served as volunteers in that expedition, as an evidence of the high sense entertained by the Senate, of their patriotism and intrepidity.
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Washington, District Of Columbia
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March 13
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introduction of senate resolution to grant land township as recognition of service.
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A resolution introduced in the Senate requests the President to survey and grant a six-mile square township called Derry E from public lands to William Eaton, Presley N. O'Bannon, George Washington Mann, and three surviving volunteer marines for their patriotism and intrepidity in an expedition.