Legal/Financial

Alexius J. McAtee, oath

1863-02-24

Date of Creation
February 24, 1863
Place of Creation
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863
Box / Folder
R3-461 to R3-462
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-029-0307
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32211509
People
McAtee, Alexius Joseph
Monroe, Andrew
[Unknown], Elliot
Clement, Joseph
Gilchriest, Robert
Conn, T. Jack
Field, Willis
Places
Daviess County, Kentucky
Indiana
Jefferson County, Kentucky
Kentucky
Organizations
Jefferson County Court
Dates
1862-11-29
1863-03-04
1863-02-21
1863-02-24
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Citation

Alexius J. McAtee, oath, 1863-02-24, Office of the Governor, James F. Robinson: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons, Remissions, and Respites, 1862-1863, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-029-0307 (November 12, 2026).

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The State of Ky.
County of Jefferson

This day A. J. McAlten made oath before me a Justice of the Peace for Said County that on the 29th day of Nov. 1862. in the County of Daviess in Said State "Elliott" a slave the property of Willis Field of the Said County of Daviess in the State of Ky. did maliciously & with malice afore thought with a butcher knife about six inches long which he the Said Elliott, Slave as aforesaid then held in his left hand Stab, thrust and penetrated the body of the Said Willis Field in the abdomen & through the heart of the Said Willis Field, then & there after being stabed as afsd by the said Elliott slave as aforesaid with the Butcher Knife six inches long as afsd lingered & Died from the effects of the stabbing as afsd by the Said Elliott slave as afsd & that the Said Elliott, slave of Willis Field as afsd is guilty of the Crime of "Murder" in the killing & murdering the Said Willis Field

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in Daviss County in the State of Ky. as afsd & that the Said Elliott is now a Fugitive from Justice in the State of Indiana, going at large

Alexius J. McAtee

Subscribed & sworn to before me by Alexius J. McAtee this 24 day of Feb 1863.
Jos Clement J. P. J. C.

State of Ky.
Jefferson Co } Sct.

I, T. Jack Conn Clerk clerk of the County Court of the County afsd certify that Jos Clement whose genuine signature appears to the foregoing certificate is now and was at the time of Signing the Same an acting Justice of the Peace in and for Said Co duly elected & qualified & that full faith & Credit are due all his official acts as such.

{Seal}
In Testimony whereof I have herewith set my hand & affixed the Seal of said court this 24. Feby 1863

T. Jack Conn Clerk

State of Ky
Jeff. Co. } towit

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I, Andrew Monroe Sole Judge of this Jefferson County Court to certify that T. Jack Conn whose genuine Signature appears to the foregoing certificate is and was at the time of making the same Clerk of the Jefferson County Court duly elected commissioned & qualified & that full credit are due to his official acts as such.

Witness my hand this 24th day of Feby 1863.

Andrew Monroe
Sole Judge Jeff. Co. Ct

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Indiana

Requisition for Elliott (a Slave)
Murder

R Gilchrist
Agent
IssdMar 4th 1863