Warren County NcArchives News.....John Marshall 1787
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State Gazette Of South Carolina 1787
Date: February 15, 1787; Paper: State Gazette of South Carolina

By His Excellency
Richard Caswell, Esq.
Governor, Captain General, and Commander in Chief in and over the state of 
North Carolina,
A PROCLAMATION.
WHEREAS, John Marshall, late of Warren county, in this state, who is charged 
with having committed frauds, upon the treasury of the state, and being 
concerned in procuring fraudulent accounts to be paid the office of the 
commissioners of army accounts, hath fled from this state, and removed his 
property therefrom, and is supposed to be in some one of the neighbouring 
states, therefore to the end, the said JOHN MARSHALL be brought to justice, 
and in pursuance of a resolution of the General Assembly, I have though fit 
to issue this my proclamation, offering a reward of One Hundred Pound, which 
in the name of the state I promise and engage shall be paid out of the public 
treasury, to any, person or persons, who shall apprehend and secure the said 
JOHN MARSHALL, so that he be brought to justice for the offences aforesaid.
Given under my hand and the great seal of the state, which I have caused to be 
hereunto affixed at Kinston the 13th day of January, Anno Domini 1787, and in 
the 11th year of the independence of the state.
RICHARD CASWELL.
By his excellency’s command,
Winston Caswell, pro. Sec’y.
GOD SAVE THE STATE.


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