Isham G. Harris, Requisition

Accession Number

KYR-0001-022-0005

Document Genre

Legal/Financial

Repository

Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives

Collection

Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Requisitions for the Return of Fugitives from Justice, 1859-1861

Item Location

MG7-159 to MG7-160A

Place of Creation

Nashville, Davidson County, Tennessee

Date of Creation

19 March 1861

Dates Mentioned

1859

1860

1861-03-19

1859-03-01

1860-03-01

1861-03-15

1861-03-23

State of Tennessee,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT.

TO HIS EXCELLENCY, THE GOVERNOR OF Kentucky

Sir: It has been made known to me that a certain Littlebury.B. Andrews of our County of Maury stands charged with having in the month of — 1859 & 18560 willlfully maliciously fraudulently and feloniously harbor hide, conceal, and secrete a certain slave "Friday" the property of one Wm. Biffle as will more fully appear from an authenticated ~~copy of~~ Affidavit herewith transmitted: And whereas, it has been made known to [...] that the said Andrews has fled from justice and is now running at large in the State of Kentucky

Now Therefore, I. Isham G. Harris Governor of the State of Tennessee in pursuance of the Act of Congress, entitled "An Act respecting Fugitives from Justice," do hereby demand, that your Excellency will please cause the said Andrews to be arrested if to be found within the limits of the State over which you [pres]ide [...] have him safely delivered to I. M. Ament who is appo[inted][Agen]t on the part of this State to receive the said fugitive from the civil authorities of the State of Kentucky to the end that he may be brought to the State of Tennessee [...][...] with according to law.

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In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed at NASHVILLE, on the 19^th day of March 18561

BY THE GOVERNOR:
Isham G Harris

J E R Ray Secretary of State.

State of Tennessee Maury County.

This day before me Stephen D Herndon an acting justice of the peace in and for said State & County personally came William Biffle and made oath in due form of the law that he was the owner in his own right and property of a slave named Friday in said State & County — that said slave Friday absconded, fled and ran away from his custody and premises and possession in said State & County — that while and during the time said slave Friday was a fugitive, and runaway slave, to wit from first day of March 1859 to the first day of March 1860 in said State & County, one Littlebury B Andrews did wilfully maliciously, fraudulently and feloniously, with force and arms in said county and state aforesaid, harbor, protect, maintain, secrete, hide, and conceal said slave Friday, well knowing at the time that said slave Friday was a fugitive, and runaway slave, with the intent to deprive him the said William Biffle of said slave — and that said Littlebury B Andrews since the commission of said crime and offence, has left and removed himself from the state of Tennesseee and is a now a resident of Graves county State of Kentucky —

March 15th 1861.

S. D. Herndon J. P {Seal}
For Maury County,

Tennessee

Warrant Iss^d for Littlebury B. Andrews
"Harboring a Slave"
Mar 23d. 1861

Governor of the State of Tennessee:

To all who shall see these Presents, — Greeting:

It is Hereby Certified, That Stephen D. Herndon — whose genuine signature appears to the above Certificate, is and was at the time of signing the same, and acting justice of the peace in and for said county and State duly elected and commissioned.

And that full faith and credit should be given to his official attestation as such.

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In Testimony Whereof I have hereunto set my hand and caused the Great Seal of the State to be affixed at NASHVILLE on this 19^th day of March 1861

BY THE GOVERNOR:

Isham G Harris

J E R Ray
SECRETARY OF STATE.

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