GEORGIA DEPARTMENT OF ARCHIVES AND HISTORY, ATLANTA, GEORGIA  30334

 

                      WP-OC1  PRELIMINARY DESCRIPTIVE INVENTORY

 

CORPORATE NAME:  Georgia Governor's Office                    RECORD GROUP:   1

(110a)                                                        (035)         ___

 

SUB-UNIT:   Records Relating to Convicts & Fugitives          SUB-GROUP:      4

(110b)                                                        (035)         ___

 

SERIES:   Rewards                                             SERIES:        20

(245)                                                         (035)         ___

 

SCHEDULE:   n/a                                               PAGE: 1

(035)

 

RESTRICTIONS ON ACCESS:  NONE

(506a)

 

DESCRIPTION OF SERIES AND ITS CONTENTS:

(545, 520)

 

      These volumes contain proclamations of rewards offered by the Chief Executive for felony crimes and selected misdemeanors.  On request from county officials, the Governor issued a reward proclamation for the fugitive.  Units 1 - 3 are boxes which contain loose proclamations that lack any particular order and they may or may not be a duplication of the corresponding volumes (units 4 - 18).

 

      The proclamations are arranged by date of announcement and list the criminal, county, crime, circumstances, the reward and a standard paragraph giving the official sanction by the state of the fugitive's apprehension.

 

      Successive volumes revoked the reward offers of prior years, except for Gin House Burners, Forgers of Land Titles, and Counterfeiters of the Great Seal of the State, A.D. Candler, 12/3/1898.  The researcher may also see RGSGSERIES 1-4-19,

Register of Warrants Received and Requisitions Issued for Fugitives, and RGSGSERIES 1-4-62, Correspondence Relating to Rewards.  In the following shelf list, Unit 10, 1902-1907, has a duplicate copy from the Secretary of State's Office.

 

 

UNIT  CONTENTS                                                          LOCATION


 

93-1792A

1     1853 - 1884, 1903 - 1911, Unknowns                                2798-12

2     1850 - 1914, A - K, Offenders Known                               2799-10

3     1850 - 1914, L - Y, Offenders Known                               2799-13

4     1869 - 1877                                                       2799-09

5     1872 - 1882, Index only                                           2799-15

6     1878 - 1885                                                       2799-15

7     1885 - 1889                                                       2799-15

7A    1885 - 1889, Index only                                           2799-15

8     1890 - 1892, Index only                                           2800-12

9     1892 - 1901                                                       2799-18

10    1902 - 1907                                                       2799-16

10A   1907 - 1909                                                       2799-16

11    1909 - 1913                                                       2799-16

12    1912 - 1917                                                       2799-16

13    1912 - 1940                                                       2799-16

14    1913 - 1922                                                       2799-18

 


93-1792A

15    1913 - 1924                                                       2799-18

16    1921 - 1929                                                       2799-18

17    1929 - 1932                                                       2799-15

18    1934 - 1936                                                       2799-18

 

00-1176A

      1983-1995

19      Rewards Offered/Paid, 1988-1991                                 0190-03

        Rewards:

          -John B. Gordon Black, 1987

          -Burke/McDuffie County Murders, 1983

          -Bobbie Rogers Claxton, 1992

          -Lee Crews, 1985

          -Francis Tutt Davis, 1984

          -Ashley Marie "Cricket" Dudley, 1986

          -R.T. Ferguson, 1992

          -Bobby William Hood, 1984

          -Julius Iteld, 1993

          -Louis Kelly, 1991

          -Leonard William Mason, 1992

          -Harold McKinnon, 1985

          -Jean Buice/Bettye Miles, 1983

          -Raymond Moore, 1995

          -Northwest Atlanta Murders, 1988

          -Judy Ann Smail, 1994

          -Newt Smith, 1993

          -Mary Nancy Vincent, 1994

          -Queen Madge White, 1988