Clay County, Kentucky:  Collins  

Submitted by:  Nell Dwyer
               NDwyer@aol.co
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September 3,1854 (Page 285 Vol 5)
Commonwealth VS Margaret Collins & Elizabeth Collins
Being in custody charged with the offense of stealing a child under the age of
ten years old and being admitted to bail in the sum of $100 We? Amos Collins,
Pleasant Sisemore & Benjamin Collins of Clay County -------- undertake that
the above named Elizabeth & Margaret Collins shall appear in the Clay Circuit
Court on the first day of next April term to answer said charge and shall
------ render themselves amendable to the orders and process of the court in
the prosecution of said charge and of ------- shall render? Themselves
------(the rest is difficult to read)

Isaac McCollum, F.I. Gilbert, Gilbert Collins, Wm M. McCollum, Calvin Collins,
Claiborn Smith, Aggy Sizemore, Aaron Collins, Pleasant Sizemore, Eliza Scalf,
Rebecca Scalf, Elizabeth Collins, Jesse Scalf, & Mahala Woods each
acknowledged themselves indebted to the Commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal
sum of $100 to be levied of their respective goods & chattels lands &
tenements to the use of the Commonwealth rendered but to be void upon their
appearance here on the first day of next term of this court as witnesses for
the Commonwealth against Margaret Collins and not depart without leave of the
Court.

Commonwealth VS Susan Collins
Being in custody charged with stealing a child under the age of ten years old
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