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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Beriah Magoffin: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Petitions for Pardons and Remissions, 1859-1862 KYR-0001-020-2203 MG24-329

Bracken County, Kentucky Bracken County, Kentucky Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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Bracken Circuit Court Commonwealth of Kentucky Against John Cookendofer

The Grand Jury of Bracken County, in the name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, accuse John Cookendofer of the crime of Stealing a Horse, committed as follows to wit:

The said John Cookendofer on the day of August 1856 in the County aforesaid feloniously did steal, take and carry away a certain Horse, the personal property of Louisa Fields, against the peace and dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

W E. Arthur Commonwths Atto:

Witnesses Newton Downard Thomas Fields Sharp Foster

A copy att R J. Hughey C B C Ct