1 ALS to the Governor of Kentucky from Reuben Payne, Henry P. Baford, J[ame]s Dysart
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The document consists of a petition to the governor of Kentucky requesting the pardon of Surry.
The material consists of nine manuscript documents concerning the trial and conviction of Surry, an African American slave owned by Thomas Montgomery, for the murder of Moses, a slave owned by John Hyatt, in Lincoln County, Kentucky, in 1808.