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These legal documents relate to the case of the United States vs. Belt Brashear. Brashear was accused of stealing nails worth two hundred dollars on March 1, 1860 from Miami tribal lands in the Kansas Territory. During the mid-19th century, the Miami tribal lands in the Kansas were located in Lykins (now Miami) and Linn counties. Brashear was indicted during the May term of the U. S. District Court of the Kansas Territory, Third District, in Fort Scott.
Date: May 1860
Item Number: 444808
Call Number: Kansas Territory Criminal Case Files, Box 5, Folder 28
KSHS Identifier: DaRT ID: 444808
Collections - State Archives - U. S. District Court of Kansas (Kansas Territory) - Criminal Case Files
Date - 1854-1860 - 1860
Government and Politics - Crime and Punishment - Crime - Theft
Government and Politics - Federal Government - Courts - United States District Courts
Government and Politics - Territorial Government - Courts - Third Judicial District
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Case file
Objects and Artifacts - Communication Artifacts - Documentary Artifact - Record, Judicial
People - American Indians - Indian lands
People - American Indians - Tribes - Miami
Places - Counties - Linn
Places - Counties - Lykins (1855-1861)
Places - Counties - Miami
Places - Indian reservations - Miami
Thematic Time Period - Bleeding Kansas, 1854 - 1861
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Government records - Case files
Type of Material - Unpublished documents - Legal documents
http://www.kansasmemory.org/item/444808