Georgia:  Hancock County: Newspaper Abstracts, Robert Cacey, 1806

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From: "Hancock County, Georgia Early Newspaper Abstracts 'Farmer's 
Gazette' 
1803-1804, 1806-1807", Abstracted by Faye Stone Poss.


Page 40

Declaration of Robert CACEY, Made under the Gallows, on the day of his 
execution:

"HEAR ME! I am hovering on the brink of eternity! And, beg the good 
citizens may lend an ear to what I now pen. I am condemned to die! On charge, 
which I call Heaven to witness, I am clear of; and hope the Lord will, my false. 
and unfriendly fellow-men, that gave evidence against me; namely, Enoch 
RIGDON, Eli PARKER, John PENTON, David ADAMS, and Edward CLANTON; who before the 
Honorable Court, held at Hillsborough, on the 11th August, 1806, then and there, 
and during the pursuance of my trial, swore false in every degree. 
respecting myself; for which I die! And my God give them hearts to repent. 
Robert CACEY."

Mr. RYAN, The above "declaration of Robert CACEY, "having been 
published in the Georgia Observator, a paper printed in Greenesborough.1 feel it 
a duty which I owe to myself, to repel all such unwarantable attempts upon my 
character.  For which purpose I publish a statement, in substance of the 
testimony I gave on the trial, as also the certificates of Capt. BOOTE, and 
Doctor T. BIRD, who were present with me at the examination, whose statements 
corroborate my own; also, the affidavit of Dred ROGERS, as to the declaration of 
PARR, one of the criminals, made the night before he was executed - PARR was 
criminated entirely upon the testimony of RIGDON, PARKER and PENTON. David 
ADAMS, September 17,1806.

Number 1. On the night of the 6th of March, 1805, Capt. CLANTON and 
myself were in bed at Mr. Robert HILL's, about 2 miles, as I suppose, from the 
place where Capt. ROGERS was killed. Doctor BIRD knowing that we were there 
living himself near Mr. HILL's, come, on hearing of the murder of Capt. 
(Michael) ROGERS, to get Capt. CLANTON and myself to go with him to see if the 
man was really killed.  We then went to a house near the river and there met the 
son of Capt. ROGERS who told us that he was in the fish trap with his father 
when he was killed by a shot from the shore, and said that several guns were 
fired at him and his father; he also said that Eli PARKER and another soldier 
was in the river at the time his father was killed...

Capt. BOOTE he ordered the troops to be paraded; he then had PARKER and 
PENTON brought before him for examination - they both confessed on Sergeant 
CACEY and Isaac MUNROE. Capt. BOOTE questioned PARKER while Doctor BIRD examined 
PENTON. CACEY was ordered before the Captain for examination...

(Statements by Wm. R. BOOTE, Thompson BIRD, and Dread ROGERS followed 
the above.)