Member Of A Company Of Desperadoes

Report of the Virginia State Library, Volumes 5-7:

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Some Michigan Prisoners Circa 1841

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Ira C. Backus, Michigan Prison Inspector

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Ira Chandler Backus's entry at Wikitree.com.

1840/1841 Cost Of Conveying Prisoners

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Henry B. Cleveland

Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Officers of the Michigan State ..., By Michigan State Prison (transcript on message board*):

*40 CLEVELAND Henry B. 1864 33 Washtenaw Pardoned 1867 1 Solitary-Life

Murder Of John C. Depew 

A brutal murder occurred near Chelsea in September, 1863, John C. Depew being killed by some unknown person. Henry B. Cleveland was arrested, and in December following was tried and sentenced to the State's prison for life. He served but two or three years, when he was pardoned by the Governor, there being grave doubts of his guilt. (An account of the murder will be found in 

the history of Chelsea.) [Source]

Cahaba Prison Diagram

Field At Cahaba Prison (Alabama)

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John R. H. Acklin's Affidavit

Document held at the Alabama Archives; "Affadivit related to the case of State vs. William Morgan (alias Lemuel Reddin)."

10 May 1820

State of Alabama
Madison County

John R. H. Acklin

"William Saunders, and Bird Brandon, being duly sworn....and first these deponents Acklin V. Saunders for themselves say that on or about the 21st of February last, they lost two horses which were kept in a stable, that they occupied in common; that circumstances induced them to believe they were stolen by a man calling himself William Morgan, who had a short time previously been discharged from the jail of said county, on a Habeas Corpus - Information having been received that said Morgan had been arrested and committed to the jail of Maury County, Tennessee.  These deponents Acklin and Bird Brandon pursued him to that place where they found him detained in prison under the name of Lemuel Reddin which is his real name."

Note: They recovered the horses in Maury County, Tennessee, from a Mr. Williams and a Mr. Kirk to whom Mr. Reddin loaned said horses.

John. R. H. Acklin was the son of Samuel Black Acklin and Elizabeth (Hunt) Acklin.  Elizabeth was the daughter of the John Hunt who was the founder of Huntsville, Madison County, Alabama.

Richmond's Attempt To Poison The Backus Family

Dansville weekly herald., May 30, 1850, Page 2, Image 2:

Livonia, Livingston County, New York

The well on the premises of John Backus was poisoned

Arsenic was discovered before any of the water was used

A man by the name of *James Richmond--who was indicted some year and a half ago for Arson, in setting fire and burning a barn belonging to Mr. Backus, and who was once tried, but the Jury did not agree--has been arrested on suspicion.

*Will of James Richmond of Bloomfield, Wisconsin

In 1860, 49 year old James A. Richmond was living with his brother, Ira Richmond, in Walworth County, Wisconsin. Was James the James Richmond in prison in Auburn, Cayuga Co., New York, in 1850?  The crime [Arson] was listed on the census.

Were James Richmond and his brother Thomas (my ancestor) married to sisters? [Laura Backus married Thomas Richmond; was her sister, Lorenza married 1st to James Richmond and 2nd to William Watrous?]

An Infamous Woman

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Louisville daily courier (Louisville, Ky. : 1851), September 15, 1858

Edward Spangler, An Acquaintance Of Booth's

The Death of Lincoln: The Story of Booth's Plot, His Deed and the Penalty (follow link for the rest of the story):

Edward/Edmund Spangler's entry at Wikipedia and his profile at Wikitree.  A link to Spangler genealogy here (also referenced this book).

Conveying Samuel Clay

Michigan Prisoners in 1842:

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Same Samuel Clay in the case of Jonathan B. Wright, Spendthrift, Estate #3874?

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Samuel G. Clay, witness - went to prison and was pardoned by Gov. Barry, it was a girls case--

Mary Eno Died In Prison

Biennial Report of the Board of Control and Officers of the Michigan State ..., By Michigan State Prison (transcript on message board):

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8. Mary Eno, 23, Genesee, 1852, Died, 1858

...Plymouth Pilot, Volume 1, Number 43,Plymouth, Marshall County, 12 November 1851

"That the said Peter Eno came to his death upon the 15th day of October, 1851, ' at Flint, in the county aforesaid, by means of poison administered to him by Mary Eno his wife, and William East-man." 

November 26, 1858, The New York Times...

Two life convicts in the State Prison of Michigan have died...[one] known as " Mackinaw," and Mrs. Mary Eno both incarcerated for the crime murder. [snip] Mrs. Eno was sent from Genesee County, some six years served, for the murder of her husband. We believe her accomplice, a hired man, w as also sent at the same time, and is still an inmate of the solitary prison.

Name: Mary Eno

Census 1850

Flint, Genesee, Michigan

Household Role Gender Age Birthplace

Peter Eno M 34 England

Mary Eno F 33 England

Robert Eno M 0 Michigan

Related To Oliver Hyde

Re: Sprague prisoner

"Thomas Sprague, of Michigan (a brother of prisoner), Mary E., his wife, Julia A. Hyde, a sister of prisoner's father (Isaac Sprague), and Oliver Hyde, her husband.... .  They also testified to the fact o the all from the cherry tree in Vermont and to the insanity of the relations of the prisoner (Charles Sprague)."

Oliver Hyde was once the Mayor of Detroit.

Census 1880

Detroit, Wayne, Michigan

HOUSEHOLD

Thos S Sprague Self M 56 Vermont

Mary E Sprague Wife F 54 Connecticut

Isaac N Sprague Father M 79 Vermont

Phoebe S Sprague Mother F 72 New York

Henrietta Wilson Other F 17 Canada

Sarah J Williams Other F 34 Canada

Hubert Morey Other M 21 Ohio

The Confederate Prison At Salisbury

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Man With The Branded Hand

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Captain Jonathan Walker was a Massachusetts boy who went to sea.  He was incarcerated in Pensacola, Florida, at which time he was branded with the letters "S.S." [slave stealer].  Captain Walker settled in Muskegon, Michigan, and that is where he died.

From Michigan History, Volume 5:

Whittier has immortalized in verse the Man with the Branded Hand.

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Others listed in Walker's narrative concerning his incarceration and trial in Florida included Francis Torward [Francisco Touart], Robert C. Caldwell, Walker Anderson, and Ebenezer Dorr.

In 1873 there was a second marriage in Milford, Massachusetts.  His parents were named as Seth Walker and Mercy Bassett.

Mr. Langridge's Pardon

Add caption (1897-98)

J. C. Higgins was a character reference forWilliam [Henry] Langridge.  They both served in Co. A, 23 Illinois Infantry. Langridge was enumerated at Jackson Prison in 1890; his Civil War service was noted.

Langridge was still in prison in early 1900:

Name: William H Laugridge
Census 1900
Michigan State Prison Jackson city Ward 8, Jackson, Michigan
Gender: Male
Marital Status: Widowed
Race: White
Birth Date: Jul 1844
Birthplace: Michigan
Father's Birthplace: England
Mother's Birthplace: Ireland

William Henry Langridge was sentenced 26 November 1878 for 2nd Degree murder in the death of his mother, Mrs. Martha Farrell. He was pardoned on 28 December 1900:

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Her was living in the Old Soldier's Home in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, in 1920. He died 23 March 1921.

Henry W. Langridge may have been born at Mackinac Island, Michigan.  He may have married Julia McDonald, originally of London, Ontario, Canada. [Death record of Alfred Langridge; Henry W. Langridge had a son named Alfred, who spoke on his father's behalf at a pardon hearing]

Inmates In the Provincian Penitentiary

The roster for October 1, 1838 (Names, District, Crime, When Sentenced and Term of Imprisonment):

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