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1825 Petition Contributed by Bob Alloway |
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the William H. English collection, but not sure from which library. It
was copied from a very crumbling original and may not be able to be
viewed again. Understand that Marion County, before Statehood was
considered Delaware County, and later not only included the area that
is now Johnson and Hamilton but parts of Boone, Madison and
Hancock.were within it. Names will follow in next post. On the outside
of the folded document it
reads: 1825 - Bridges Petition - JOHN BRIDGE - Pardoned To His Excellency James Brown Ray Governor of the State of Indiana We the undersigned citizens of Indianapolis and inhabitants of Marion County humbly represent unto your Excellency at the May Term of the Madison Circuit Court, AD 1825 held in the State aforesaid came on for trial the case of John Bridge on an indictment for the murder of an Indian man named Logan at the County Aforesaid and was then and there found guilty of the crime of Murder by the Jury and sentenced to suffer death by the court. Your petitioners further represent from his extreme ignorance and youth and from your petitioners enticed conviction that said John Bridge was ensnared and drawn into the unhappy transaction and crime by and through the persuasions and influence of his father, John T. Bridge and his uncle, Thomas Harper, two of the principals in the crime: believing that if restored to society, he will make a good and virtuous citizen , we your petitioners humbly recommend him as a fit subject for clemency and Executive mercy, and seriously and warmly urge your Excellency to grant to said John Bridge a full and complete pardon of the crime aforesaid and restore him again to society, and as in duty bound your petitioners will ever pray. List of actual signatures of petitioners of 1825 Indianapolis: HERVEY MOBLEY F. DAVIS ANDREW INGRAM LIVINGSTON DUNLAP GEORGE SMITH JESSE WELLS BENJAMIN PHILLIPS HERVEY BATES DAVID WILLIAMS JOHN KEPHART ABRAHAM MAYERS CHARLES LAYTON URIAH LUTZ JOHN GIVAN BENJAMAN SATON THOMAS CARTER JAMES BLAKE PETER CASTETTER JOHN ST CLAIR JAMES HARMON GEORGE MARQUIS JOHN NEGLEY GEORGE KIMBERLAND WILLIAM MCLAREN ELI SULGROVE THOMAS SCUDDER JACOB LANDIS DAVID FOX JACOB CARPENTER HIRAM CALGAN JOHN L. PATTERSON SAMUEL STEPHENS JONAH HOOVER THOMAS JEFFERSON BEELER J.M. JOHNSTON JOHN JACKSON JOHN ROSIER BENJAMIN CUDDINGTON THOMAS WOODS JOSEPH R. RHOAD JOHN WEST CHARLES ALLISON PETER SMITH JOEL WRIGHT JOHN HAWKINS ISAAC PHIPPS JACOB SUTHERLAND ELIJAH DAWSON JAMES SULGROVE WILLIAM BACON F.C. KIMBERLY JOHN BURNS AARON CHERRY HENRY BRENTON ELIJAH RISLEY ISAAC KINDER JOHN HARMON ISAAC HARDING JAMES MC COY WILLIAM MITCHELL ANDREW HOOVER JOSEPH SULGROVE JACOB SULGROVE BARNET PARRISH JOHN SETTERS WILLIAM ATKINSON NOAH FLOOD SAMUEL SETTERS LYLE MC CLUNG DAVID ALLISON DAVID R. SMITH EDWARD WHITE HEZEKIAH SMITH CHARLEY SMITH SALLY HARRIS HENRY GLENN ISAAC BUTCHER A.B. STRONG FREDERICK BAYLOR WILLIAM C. THORNTON JAMES MILLER JOHN JOHNSON JOHN SMOCK ROBERT MARTIN JACOB RUNYON SAMUEL BARNHILL THOMAS POGUE BLAKEH SMITH HIRAM RAINS CALEB SCUDDER GEORGE G. LANE CONRAD CULIP ISAAC C. JOHNSON SAMUEL K. BRISTOW EPHRAIM ARNOLD DAVID MARTINDALE DAVID HARPER ZEBULON CHILL THOMAS SMITH THOMAS ONEIL MILES MARTINDALE DAVID GRIGGS Not one signature appeared to be shaky, which would indicate an older gent, and about 49 names I couldn't make out.If I couldn't read the whole name, I had to move on.Maybe the petitioner stood out on the courthouse steps to get signatures? |
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