Confession of Aaron Todd, 1839-1840.

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Confession of Aaron Todd, 1839-1840.

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Journal, 1839-1840, kept by Woollard during Todd's trial. Woollard's handwritten transcription of Todd's confession that covers much of his life up to the beating, strangling, stabbing murder. Woollard's account book, two letters, one by Woollard and one by F. H. Hereford, discussing the trial, confession and hanging, and a receipt of payment for copies of the confessions.

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Todd, Aaron, 1813-1840

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Woollard, James B. (James Ball), 1804-1887.

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Bond County, Illinois early settler who farmed near Mulberry Grove, Ill. on land he bought with payment for his service in the Black Hawk War, traveled as a Methodist circuit preacher, served in the Illinois House of Representatives and was Chaplain for the Illiniois 111th Volunteers from the time it was formed until illnes forced his resignation in Dec. 1864. His ancestors had settled in North Carolina before the Revolution but his family moved to Tennessee in 1810. After he married Mary McCurl...

Scott, Larkin, -1840

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