1815 - Scott Co., Escape from a congressman
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Title
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1815 - Scott Co., Escape from a congressman
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Date
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Sep 1815
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Formatted date
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1815-09
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Event type
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Escape
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Description
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In September, 1815, Richard Mentor Johnson, who would eventually become the Vice President of the United States, placed an ad in 1815, offering a reward for the return of Kit, a freedom seeker who had escaped his farm in Scott County while he was away in Washington D.C., serving in the U..S. House of Representatives. Johnson had purchased Kit several years prior from the jailer of Scott County, where he was being held, likely as aw runaway. Kit had left during the previous winter, and had been spotted in Gallatin County near the home of Robert Johnson, Richard's father in February, 1815. It was expected that he was in either Ohio or Indiana, or possibly had gone south toward Natchez or New Orleans. Kit was about 40 years old and was a carpenter.
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Bibliographic citation
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Western Citizen, Paris, Ky., September 27, 1815