I agree - the point is is the same, whether or not the story is aprocryphal, and I said so in the "King of..." post above. Like you, however, I'm caught up in historical curiosity, and it might even be a perverse sort of fun to scan the House records to ferret out the facts.

So far, I've found that the petitions for relief - which, you are right, were very numerous - don't necessarily contain any more than the name of the petitioner; leastways, not as recorded in the Journal of the House. It's gonna have to be a brute force search, without that poor woman's name.

So many interests, so little time...