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Note: IN197
Note: Not sure if this person is really 50 in 1818. This is show to document his description.
Date: 1818-01-16;
Paper: Tennessee Herald
(on GenealogyBank.com)
50 Dolls. reward.
There was stolen from me on the night of the 10th of October last at Col. Roddy’s in Grainger County E T. a chesnut sorrel horse – small blaze in his face – 5 years old – fifteen hands one inch high.
There was taken from me and Abram Skidmore two red morocco pocket Books containing eighty or ninety dollars in North Carolina notes – also at the same time one saddle, the front part of the skirt inlaid – the makers name Michiel Romenger, pasted under the skirt; also a new pair of saddle bags, containing a mixed country cloth coat, two store waistcoats and a cambric and a homespun cotton shirt. – The above property was stolen by a fellow by the name of Thomas Oliver. He is about 50 years of age (note the 50 looks odd, like an S whereas the 5 in other places is clearly a 5) and about six feet high. He has a large scar on left fore finger, fair complexion and light hair, blue eyes, prominent mouth and teeth. I will give the above reward for the thief and horse and what plunder he may have or forty dollars for the thief only.
John Skidmore
(Note the 1820 census shows a John Skidmore in Bedford Co, TN
There is a Thomas Oliver in Rutherford.
In 1830 there is a Wilson Oliver in Grainger Co, TN)
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