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This collection contains a legal notice requesting any justice of the peace of the State of Illinois to question an individual named McCrilli concerning a case pending in Brandenburg, Kentucky, dated January 18, 1843. The request was placed by William Fairleigh of the Meade County and Circuit Courts.
William Fairleigh (1797-1865) was a general merchant in Brandenburg, Meade County, Kentucky. Fairleigh served as a first clerk of Meade County and Circuit Courts.
This collection contains a legal notice requesting the assistance of any justice of the peace of the State of Illinois in questioning an individual named McCrilli dated January 18, 1843. The legal notice concerns a case pending in the Meade Circuit Court in Brandenburg, Kentucky, and appears to have been received in Carlinville, Illinois. The case mentions William B. Adams as the complainant, and John Stayden and George Frymire as defendants.
The collection was acquired by the Illinois Historical Survey, the predecessor of the Illinois History and Lincoln Collections, circa 1973.
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