Extradition Papers

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Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Kent regarding Maine's renewed refusal to extradite
Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Kent regarding Maine's renewed refusal to extradite Captain Daniel Philbrook and First Mate Edward Kellerun. "I cannot perceive in the reasons assigned by Your Excellency any sufficient justification for this determined denial to Georgia of a right secured by each State to the others, by contract clearly expressed in the Constitution and absolutely necessary to the well being of all."
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Extradition Papers




Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap Enclosing Indictment and Requesting Extradition of Philbrook and Kellerun
Letter from Governor Gilmer to Governor Dunlap enclosing indictment and requesting extradition of Captain Daniel Philbrook and Edward Kellerun of the Schooner Susan.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Extradition Papers



Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus
Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus, before Joseph Felt, Justice of the Peace. Joseph Sagurs and his brother Henry asserted that Captain Daniel Philbrook and first mate Edward Kellerun of the schooner Susan did "feloniously invigle, steal, take, and carry away without the limits of the State of Georgia a negro man slave named Atticus, the property of this deponent.." on May 4, 1837.
  • Type: OBJECT
  • Collection: Extradition Papers


Letter from Governor McDonald to Governor Kent Requesting Extradition of Philbrook and Kelleran
Letter from James J. McDonald, Governor of Georgia, to Maine's Governor Edward Kent renewing the demand for extradition of Captain Daniel Philbrook and First Mate Edward Kelleran [Kellerun or Killoran] in order to "preserve amicable relations between the States of Georgia and Maine, two members of this great confederacy, and to maintain the harmony of the Union."
  • Type: FILE


Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus
Affadavit of James Sagurs, owner of Atticus, before Joseph Felt, Justice of the Peace. Joseph Sagurs and his brother Henry asserted that Captain Daniel Philbrook and first mate Edward Kellerun of the schooner Susan did "feloniously invigle, steal, take, and carry away without the limits of the State of Georgia a negro man slave named Atticus, the property of this deponent.." on May 4, 1837.
  • Type: FILE