Clay County, Kentucky: Chesnut Submitted by: Nell Dwyer NDwyer@aol.com **************************************************************************** 1854 Commonwealth VS James & John Chesnut James and John Chesnut being in custody charged with the offense of manslaughter and being admitted to bail in the sum of $2000. We, Benjamin Chesnut, Blevins Chesnut and John Howar? Of Clay County hereby undertake that said James and John Chesnut shall appear in the Clay County Circuit Court on the 1st day of the next April term to answer said charge. David Benge?, Elisha St?, David Freeman, Wm Pigg, W Garland, Westerfield? McFadden, Edward Cornett, Isaac Cornett & Roger Cornett to be witnesses for the Commonwealth agt James and John Chesnut. ****************************************************************************** USGENWEB NOTICE: In keeping with our policy of providing free genealogical information on the Internet, data may be freely used for personal research and by non-commercial entities as long as this message remains on all copied material. These electronic pages may not be reproduced in any format or presentation by other organizations or persons.Persons or organizations desiring to use this material for profit or any form of presentation, must obtain the written consent of the file submitter, or his legal representative and then contact the listed USGENWEB archivist with proof of this consent.