Georgia:  Elbert County:  Petition for Clemency, Hog Stealing,
Angus McDonald
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Chandler Eavenson
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A copy of an original document on file in the Telamon Cuyler Collection,
University of Georgia, reflects a petition signed by numerous residents of
Elbert Co., GA. Since all signatures appear to be in different handwriting,
it is assumed each person signed personally. While the signatures are
difficult to read, the submitter has used his best judgment in the proper
spelling. The document is undated but was among other documents from the
earliest period of Elbert Co., created Dec. 1790 from Wilkes Co. Practically
all of the names shown appear in Elbert Co. deed records in the period
1791-1806.

"Elbert County
State vs. Angus McDonald & Johnson
Hog Stealing

"We do not hesitate to recommend Angus McDonald who has been found guilty
of the crime charged, and recommended by the Jury to mercy as being a
proper subject of Executive Clemency, it having been proven that except
the above act he hs uniformly supported an honest and industrious character.

"R. T. Cosby, C. Tait, Geo Matthews, Jr., Wm. H. Crawford, Jno Griffin,
Peter Early, W. Wood, G. Cook, R. Middleton, R. Cosby, Solomon Rountree,
Rn. Lindsay, Wm. Huett, Nicholas Pope, Wm. Holt, E. Paine, Mathew Jordan,
Joseph Griffin, Jas. O. Cosby, Leon Keeling, George Wyche, David Clark,
J. Weston, Max Felps, A. Higginbotham, L. Keeling."

[Submitted by Chandler Eavenson]