Adair, John]: MANUSCRIPT WRIT DATED APRIL 29, 1799
Item No. 1 Crockett Flees the Jurisdiction! 1. [Adair, John]: MANUSCRIPT WRIT DATED APRIL 29, 1799. JOHN ADAIR COMPLAINS THAT JOHN CROCKETT HAS FLED THE COUNTY, OWING ADAIR ONE HUNDRED GUINEAS. JUSTICE OF THE PEACE GABRIEL SLAUGHTER ORDERS THE SHERIFF OF MERCER COUNTY, WHERE BOTH ADAIR AND CROCKETT RESIDE, TO SEIZE CROCKETT'S ESTATE TO PAY THE DEBT. [Mercer County, KY: April 29, 1799]. Folio, single leaf 7.5" x 12.5", partly untrimmed. Completely in neat ink manuscript, signed by Gabl. Slaughter, docketed on verso. Light age toning, old folds. Very Good. John Adair [1757-1840], eighth Governor of Kentucky, fought in the Northwest Indian War, was a United States Congressman and a delegate to Kentucky's Constitutional Conventions of 1792 and 1799. Suspected of complicity with Aaron Burr, he lost his bid for a full term in the U.S. Senate in 1806; Adair was later acquitted. [Kleber: KENTUCKY ENCYCLOPEDIA, 1992.] Gabriel Slaughter [1767-1830], born in Culpeper County Virginia, moved to Kentucky in 1791. He was a Justice of the Peace of Mercer County and Kentucky's seventh Governor from 1816-1820. [Id. 825.] John Crockett belonged to the Kentucky branch of the Crockett family [Davy Crockett's father was a different John Crockett]. $500.00 Item No. 2 The Thriving, Illegal African Slave Trade 2. [African Slave Trade]: CORRESPONDENCE WITH SPAIN, PORTUGAL, BRAZIL, THE NETHERLANDS, SWEDEN, AND THE ARGENTINE CONFEDERATION, RELATIVE TO THE SLAVE TRADE. FROM JANUARY 1 TO DECEMBER 31, 1841, INCLUSIVE. PRESENTED TO BOTH HOUSES OF PARLIAMENT BY COMMAND OF HER MAJESTY, 1842. London: Printed by William Clowes and Sons, 1842.
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