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Jeremiah W. South, Affidavit

1860-11-22

Document details

Date of Creation: November 22, 1860
Place of Creation: Frankfort, Franklin 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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1859-1862
Box / Folder: MG8-79
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-021-0008
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FTP Identifier: 32210800

Mentioned in this document

People: Gwin, George W.; Woodruff, George; South, Jeremiah W.
Places: Frankfort, Kentucky; Franklin County, Kentucky; Kentucky; Louisiana
Organizations: Commonwealth of Kentucky; Jefferson Circuit Court; Kentucky State Penitentiary
Dates: 1860-11-22; 1860-10-02; 1860-11-22; 1860-11-22; 1860-11-22

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Jeremiah W. South, Affidavit, 1860-11-22, Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-021-0008 (November 12, 2026).

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Frankfort. Nov 22. 1860

Personally appeared before me the undersigned a Justice of the Peace for Franklin County duly commissioned and acting as such under the Laws of Kentucky Jere South who made oath that he is the Keeper of the Kentucky Penitentiary; that George Woodruff a convict confined upon a judgment of the Jefferson Circuit Court and sentenced to five years imprisonment, escaped from said Prison on the 2nd of October 1860 and is now at large a Fugitive from the justice of this State, and is as he believes [& is informed] now in the state of Louisiana.

Given under my hand this 22 day of November 1860.

J W South
Keeper of Ky Penitentiary

Sworn to by SJere South this 22 Nov 1860
Geo W. Gwin J. P.
Franklin County Ky

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Louisiana

Demand for George Woodruff
convict

Iss^dNov. 22^d 1860