Legal/Financial

Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John W. Barbee, Indictment

Place of Creation
Adair County, Kentucky
Document Genre
Legal/Financial
Repository
Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives
Collection
Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867
Box / Folder
BR12-362
CWGK Accession Number
KYR-0001-004-1524
Rights
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FTP Identifier
32204411

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Dates
1862
1865-02-16
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Commonwealth of Kentucky v. John W. Barbee, Indictment, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867, Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/KYR-0001-004-1524 (November 12, 2026).

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Adair Circuit Court
The Commonwealth of Kentucky
against
John W Barbee

The grand Jury of Adair County in the name & by the authority of the commonwealth of Ky, accuse John W Barbee of the offence of Bigamy committed as follows (viz) The said John W Barbee on the [...] day of [...] in the year 1862 in the county aforesaid being then & there a married man and his first wife being still alive and not having been absent from the state of Ky as much as five years, nor divorced from the said Barbee as much as twelve months did then and there marry Miss [...] Burrass unlawfully and feloniously and against the peace & dignity of the Commonwealth of Kentucky

Joseph E Hays atto for the Comth pro tem

A Copy
Attest James T. Page C, A, C, C

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The Comth of Ky
vs } Indictment for Bigamy
John W Barbee

A True Bill
J C A Strange
foreman

writ Excd
Z Wheat
T. T. Alexander

A Copy
Test J. T. Page clk

Pardon the offense and remit the penalty
T. E B

16th Feby/65