Greene County, NC - Murder of Dick Jones, 1842 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Governors Papers Gov. John M. Morehead G.P.102 Corresp., Pet., etc. Sept, 1842 - Corresp., Pet., etc. Oct. 1, 1842 - Oct 31, 1842 To His Excellency John M. Morehead, Governor of the State of North Carolina The Petition of the undersigned respectfully shew unto your Excellency that at the Fall Term 1842 of the Superior Court of Law for the County of Green an Indictment was tried against Joseph Suggs, Bright Cannady and Edith Brown for the murder of one Dick Jones, alias - Jeffrey Mares, a free Negro - that upon the trial of said Indictment the said Bright Cannady and Edith Brown were acquitted and the said Joseph Suggs was convicted of the murder of the said Dick Jones, that the undersigned are some of them acquainted with the said Joseph Suggs and beleive that he is a very ignorant illiterate man and has not the ordinary sense belonging to person of his age and station, that they beleive a violent assault had been commited on the said Joseph Suggs by Dick Jones and his brother Jim Jones who were both free Negroes, and that the shooting took place very soon - not more then a half hour after the assault was committed upon him by the said free Negros, but the Jury under the charge of the Court considered that rather prolong a time had elapsed before the wound was inflicted of which Jones died and therefore felt bound under the said charge to find him guilty of murder They therefore most respectfully pray your Excellency to grant a pardon to the said Joseph Suggs Signed this 14th day of October 1842 Jurors names who Tried the crimnal John Beeman John Sutton John F. Jones Thos Wooten Parrott M. Hardy Edward Carmon Henry H. Gibbons B.F. Hazelton James E. Exum John T. Pridgen Chas. Edwards _____________________________ William E. Handy Aquilla H. Sugg David Tindol Ezekiel Creech Henry Sugg Edmond McKeel Lemluel H. Aldge John Wilson Redding Harper Jeames Baker Rial Jones John Hill Zipher Jones Elbert Dail Jesse Freizel John W. Harrison witness Wm G. Jones Jas. B. Pridgen Thos. Witherington Henry Best Jesse Hinson James Garland James Harper Theophilus Eason James Williams Parrott Mewboorn James G. Edwards Jacob Mayberry F. Ormond Hardy Cade William Forrest Benagah Dixon Richard Grant Ruffin Jones E.G. Speight Lemuel Hardy Jnr Nathaniel Meeks Henry Barfield John C. Pridgen Stacey Creach Parrott Hill Isam Jones John Weeks Lemuel Suggs John Britt William Epps Theophilus Suggs Media Aswell Benjamin Aswell Josiah Suggs Darnnell Suggs A. Speight Daniel Howel John McKinny Benjamin Butts Noah Smyth Hardy Ormond J.S. Harell Bennet Fieds Turner Barfield William Driver William Reason William Case Ruffin Pridgen Benajah Moore Aquilla Sugg Doct James Jones John Creech Jnr Benjamin H Sugg Samuel Whitley Silas Bryant Taylor Garner R.S. Sumrell William Little Jesse P. Suton William W. Harper Meager E. Speight Josiah Sugg Ju Henry Tindol Thomas Murfrey Jacob Moor Caswel Howel Lawrence Stalians Stephen Rasberry Edmond Sugg Henry Stalians Silas Walston Wilie Rasberry Amburs Hobbs Hiram Grant Wade Butts Henry W. Edwards Charles McArthur John Grimsley Carney Wetherington John W. Rasberry John Aswell Stephen Curney Abner Speight Richard Stallans Enoch Moore David Tindol Benjamin Rasberry J.P. Speight Henry Ward Thomas Alridge Gideal Butts John Murphy Nathan Sauls William Uzzell James W. Price Benjamin C. D. Eason Nathan (his X mark) Johnson Elija Grimsley Eliz Vaughan Gray R. Pridgen John Reynolds Thomas Goff James Vaughan Robert Howell Lemuel Rhadford W. Dail Henrey Radford W.R. Jones Benjam Howell Jno. B.A. Eason Pinckney Clark William Fieds Jas. Aswell Wiley P. Harson James Aswell Winbon Vaughn Thomas E. Eason Taylor Bar Hilery Carlisle John Spight W.T. Hart William Jones George Mewboorn Wm. H.B. Taylor James G.J. Taylor Lewis Baker Richard Hidleburg Henry Williams Lemuel Caniday Smith Pridgen Edward Patrick Josiah Whitley Asai Jones Seth Dail R.H.T. Harper Joshua Rouse ___________________________________________________________________ Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by Grace Williamson Turner ___________________________________________________________________