Orange County NcArchives Court.....O'Daniel - Petition, Henry 1781
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Source: Colonial Records Of North Carolina
Written: 1781

Petition from Henry O'Daniel concerning a pardon
O'Daniel, Henry
August 19, 1781 
Volume 22, Page 1046

PETITION OF H. O’DANIEL TO GOVERNOR BURKE.

The petition of Henry O’Daniel hereby sheweth that your petitioner did, 
contrary to the laws of this State, join the British when they were at 
Hillsborough and remained with them not longer than three weeks at the end of 
which time your petitioner being fully convinced of the folly of his conduct 
and being determined in future to behave myself agreeable to the laws of the 
Country, did return home and surrender himself to a Justice of the County of 
Orange, and was bound in recognizance for to answer in Court, and for good 
behavior in the mean time. Now your petitioner having nothing to depend on but 
your Excellency’s clemency which I most humbly ask and your petitioner as in 
duty bound will ever pray.

19th August, 1781. 
HENRY O’DANIEL.

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