SIZEMORES IN COURT
CASE
ONE: submitted by: Janie Balls
State
of Kentucky, Clay County, At a County court commenced and held in
the court house in Manchester on Monday the 4 day of August 1823.
----This court having received information that in July 1822 a
certain strange traveling man who called himself Pinkny left at
the house of James Sizemore in Clay County, a bright mulatto male
child about five or six years old and under indigent suffering
and suspicious circumstances/ It is ordained that by this court
that John Gilbert take charge and provide for this child until
the further order of this court and that the clerk forthwith
request the public printer to publish the order in his paper
three months and transmit his account to the clerk of the court
for payment. ($3.00 paid by Gilbert) This child says his
mothers name is Anny, his name is George, his fathers name is
George.
Pinky stated he came from Alabama, he is
supposed to be about forth years of age and a piece off his nose
and a piece of one or both ears. He is red
complected. Printers friends are requested to insert the
above order and memoradum in their paper with a hope that this
child may be redeemed from this wicked stranger and returned to
its relatives or owner. It is supposed by some that the
child is mixed with Indian blood. It is also thought that
the child is free and has been stolen and run off for
sale.
CASE TWO:
September 3, 1854
Commonwealth VS Margaret Collins and Elizabeth Collins being in
custody charged with the offense of stealing a child under the
age of ten years old and being admitted to bail in the sum of
$100. We Amos Collins, Pleasant Sisemore, and Benjamin
Collins of Clay County --------undertake that the above named
Elizabeth and Margaret Collins shall appear in the Clay Circuit
Court on the first day of next April term to answer said charge
and shall ------render themselves amendable to the orders and
process of the court in ----------------.
Isaac McCollum, F.I.
Gilbert, Gilbert Collins, William M. McCollum, Calvin Collins,
Claiborn Smith, Aggy Sizemore, Aaron Collins, Pleasant Sizemore,
Eliza Scalf, Rebecca Scalf, Elizabeth Collins, Jesse Scalf, and
Mahala Woods each acknowledged themselves indebted to the
Commonwealth of Kentucky in the penal sum of $100 to be levied of
their respective goods and chattels lands and tenements to use of
the Commonwealth rendered but to be void upon their apperance
here in the first day of next term of this court as witnesses for
the Commonwealth against Margaret Collins and not depart without
leave of the Court.