Legal/Financial

Unknown, Affidavit

1861-01-28

Date of Creation
January 28, 1861
Place of Creation
Caldwell County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862
Box / Folder
MG17A-80
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-020-0025
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32208436
People
Dudley, James Milton
Turner, John Newt
Lindsay, Livingston
Cartwright, Milton A.
Wadlington, Thomas B.
Places
Caldwell County, Kentucky
Kentucky
Princeton, Kentucky
Dates
1859-09
1859-10
1861-01-28
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Citation

Unknown, Affidavit, 1861-01-28, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-020-0025 (November 12, 2026).

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State of Kentucky
Caldwell County sct,

Some time in the Month of Sept or October 1859, I was selected or Called on by M Dudley a then acting Justice of the Peace in and for Caldwell County, to preside and determine upon the fact, as charged in a Peace Warrant, which had been issued by Sd Dudley at the instance of T, B, Wadlington against Mack Cartwright which I did and upon a hearing thereof dismissed the WT the trial of the warrant, was had in the office of the Police Judge of Princeton and the warrant, left by me in said office the same being a mater of record properly belonging ^to^ the Office M. Dudley Esqr and took no further notice or care over it and thus as I Suppose the warrant and proceeding was lost. I supposing it to be or constitute no part of my records, haveing been as before stated called in by Dudley & If I mistake by Judge Linsay in behalf of T. B. Wadlington which I did and as I supposed was an end to the labours & duties revolving upon me, in the premises, The foregoing is a true and full statement of the facts, as they occured, pertaining to the loss of the warrant, &c.

Att J Newt Turner P J

Jany 28/61.