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GOVERNORS’ PAPERS: WILLIAM HAWKINS CORRESPONDENCE, AUGUST 1814

18 August 1814
To his Excellency William Hawkins, Esquire, Governor of the state of North Carolina.
The memorial and petition of sundry of the inhabitants of the County of Moore whose names are hereunto subscribed humbly sheweth that at the late Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions held for the said county of Moore Gabriel Hardin, John Hardin, and Nathan Vick, all of the aforesaid county of Moore, were convicted for Doging [dogging] and woring [worrying] cattle to death and sentenced by the said court to a fine of ten dollars each and sixty days imprisonment.  Your petitioners further represent, two of these men to be men of families and in very moderate circumstances and no way of supporting them but by their own labors. Your petitioners, believing that a fine of ten dollars on men in their circumstances, with the cost of the prosecution quite a sufficient punishment for the crime aforesaid, we therefore pray your Excellency will take this case into consideration and disih -argee them from the sixty days imprisonment, and your petititioners as in duty bound will ever pray
August 18th, 1814. 
State of No. Carolina, Moore County. Cornelius Dowd Clerk of the Court of Pleas and Quarter Sessions for the aforesaid County of Moore do testify the facts stated in the above petition to be true. Given under my hand this 18th of Aug. 1814.

Francis McGrick
Wm. Waddill JP or Jr.
Jas. Gaines is of opinion that the money part of the fine might be remitted but the imprisonment should not.  
George Moore
Alexander Kennedy
Leonard Stuts
Wm. Smith
Jesse Peerie
Howel Brewer
David Brewer
Drewry Brewer
Magor S. Johnson
Stephen (X) Perry
Wm. Hunsucker
James Lakey
Tho. Person
Anderson B. Smith
William Kennedy
John Kennedy
Isaac Teague
Davis Perry? [illegible]

...inform you that these cattle is nary mischeves amongs the sea geor I heard wheaire thay belonged as I am informed I have heard of them as much as 7 year at the Distance of 15 or 16 miles. [signature illegible]
? Lewis
Lockher Firy  
Joseph Firy
Bintham?  Kitching
[end of petition]

image 33: 
Caption: Petition of G. Hardin and others.

Source:
Governors' Papers: William Hawkins Correspondence, August 1814
http://digital.ncdcr.gov/cdm/compoundobject/collection/p16062coll24/id/17523/rec/1
Image 30, 31, 32, & 33 of 55, retrieved 2/27/2018.