Thanks, Jeannie, This is sure not the world we live in today!!! Mary Hill At 10:55 AM 9/6/1999 EDT, you wrote: >Accidentally copied this while looking for clues on the Riddles of Grant, >Lewis, and Fleming Counties in the late 1700-s to mid-1800's. Hope you'll >find this helpful or at least amusing. > >Jeannie Smith > >>From the Estill Co. Historical and Genealogical Society Newsletter, Vol. 4, >Issue 7, Nov. 1984: Robert Riddle Summons: > >Thorpe's Courthouse Notes >COMMONWEALTH (SUMMONS) ROBERT RIDDLE > The commonwealth of Kentucky to the Sheriff of Estill County, Greetings, >We command you to summons Robert Riddle to appear before the Judge of the >Estill Circuit Court at the court house in Irvine on the 1st day of our next >July term to answer the commonwealth to an Indictment found against him for >playing a game of chance with cards with Nathan, a slave, >Witness, Robert Clark of said court, this 4th day of May 1837 and in the 45th >year of this Commonwealth > ROBERT CLARK > >COMMONWEALTH (INDICTMENT) ROBERT RIDDLE >STATE OF KENTUCKY - ESTILL COUNTYU CIRCUIT COURT - A TRUE BILL > The Grand Jurors for the commonwealth of Kentuck empannelled and sworn in >and for the body of the circuit, composed of the county of Estill, in the >name and by the authority of the Commonwealth of Kentucky, upon their oaths >represents, that Robert Riddle late of the county of Estill, that on the >tenth day of March in the year 1837 in the county and circuit of Estill >aforesaid, did play a game of chance with cards with Nathan a slave at and >upon which game of chance so played with cards as aforesaid, diverts sums of >moey and diverts pieces of property, bet, win and lost, contrary to the form >of the statutes in each case made and provided and against the peace and >dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. >Witness: H. Tungate > >We the jury find the Defendant guilty of the charge in the Indictment and >determined that he make his fine to the Commonwealth in the sum of $6.09. > A.W. Quinn - Judge > > >==== RIDDLE Mailing List ==== >---------------RIDDLE Researchers Discussion List------------------ > > Have you hugged a RIDDLE lately?! > SMILE & pass it on! > > > > > >