About 1840, Newsome Lawry stole a horse and "a certain female slave" from Robert Hoffman of Culpeper County and carried them off toward the northwest. Hoffman pursued Lawry to Wheeling, Virginia, "where he got the negro and brought her home." Hoffman then set out to Pennsylvania to retrieve his horse, but while he was gone Lawry returned to Culpeper County and was arrested, convicted, and sent to prison. Hoffman recovered his horse, but now asks the legislature for compensation for his travels--twenty-seven or twenty-eight days and eleven hundred miles--and the two months he was without a horse during the planting season.
Result: Rejected.
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Repository: Library of Virginia, Richmond, Virginia