J. G. Crockett, Affidavit
1860-12-11
- Date of Creation
- December 11, 1860
- Place of Creation
- Clinton 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
- MG17-197
- CWGK Accession Number
- KYR-0001-020-0232
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- FTP Identifier
- 32208642
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Citation
J. G. Crockett, Affidavit, 1860-12-11, 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-0001-020-0232 (November 14, 2026).
State of Kentucky
County of Clinton } S.S.
The affiant J. G. Crockett, who is now a Justice of the peace in & for Clinton County, states that has been a neighbor of James Ferguson a great many years and that said Ferguson makes a good neighbor, that he is a hardworking industrious man, and that he is a man of family & poor — also that, when he is not under the influence of intoxicating liquors, is a peaceable & quiet man and that it is not often that he Ferguson get upon sprees — that he is a good citizen
J. G. Crockett
Sworn to before me by J. G. Crockett this
O. H. P. Snow J. P,
Kentucky, Clinton County sct
The affiant Reuben Hurt states that he was present when a dificulty occured between A. D. Reeves & James Ferguson I heard them & thought Ferguson was talking sensible & doing nothing out of the way & J. G. Pickens came up & drew a colts repeater & shook it before Ferguson^s^ breast, Ferguson had not spoken to Pickens — Ferguson was charged of with assaulting Reeves & Pickens & has been fined in the Clinton Circuit Court [f]or the same —
Reuben Hurt
Sworn to before me by Reuben Hurt this
C P Grey Examr
Kentucky Clinton County sct
The affiant A. T. Harper states that he was present when a dificulty occured between A. D. Reeves & James Ferguson, He got James Ferguson to start off with him & J. G. Pickens & others came up & commenced it again — Said Pickens drew a colts repeater upon Ferguson —
A T Harper
Sworn to before m by A. T. Harper this
C P Grey Examr