Early Governors' Papers

The deposition of David Early of Mason county in the state of Kentucky.

This deponent, being of lawful age, on his oath doth say, that on the 11^th. of March last a dark boy horse, with an intermixture of grey hairs, between 15 & 16 hand high, & having no brand was stolen from him, out of a pasture at May's lick in the county of Mason, - that on this 23^d of May following a certain John [Perinot?] Wiggin of Nashville in the State of Tennessee, passing through May's lick gave information that such a horse, together with one in the pos -ession of this said Wiggin, and which had likewise been stolen about the same time from Edm^d Martin, then in Nicholas county, had been publicly sold on a court day in May last at Nsahville by a certain Robert Wiley . - that in consequence of this information, this deponent immediately went to Nash-ville, found his horse, and applied for a warrant to take the said Wiley, that he went with the constable to take him, and that the said Wiley, on the instant that he saw this de-ponent, who had known him several years, darted from the spot where he stood, tppl immediately down the left near the tavern he was at in Nashville, and jumped into the river: that he was, however, overtaken by a canoe, which had put out after him, was apprehended and lodged in jail. - that this depo-nent on the same evening, saw a young man from Kentucky of the name of Ogden, who had been working for Wiley, and who informed him that he had been en-gaged by the said Wiley whilst in Kentucky, and had come with him to Nashville, - that on Saturday morn-ing the 12^th of March, the said Wiley came to the house of a brother of the said Ogden's in Nicholas county, about 12 miles from May's lick, with the two horses mentioned above, and a mare, - that Wiley then engaged the s^d Ogden, - that they started from hence on Sunday morning avoided the main road and kept through the woods two days, leaving Cynthianna and Georgetown to the left hand and shunning