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Benjamin P. Cissell, Affidavit

1864-06-08

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Date of Creation: June 8, 1864
Place of Creation: Union 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, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 1863-1867
Box / Folder: BR7-72
CWGK Accession Number: KYR-0001-005-0040
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FTP Identifier: 32206299

Mentioned in this document

People: [Ten], Angeline; Cissell, Benjamin P.; [Ten], Carrie; James, David Cloyd; Burbank, David Redman; [Unknown], Dick; [Unknown], Phil; Cunningham, Richard D.; [Ten], Samuel; [Ten], Sarah; [Ten], William; [Unknown], [Unknown]; [Unknown], [Unknown]
Places: Paducah, Kentucky; Union County, Kentucky
Organizations: Union Circuit Court; United States Army
Dates: 1856; 1864; 1864-06-08

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Benjamin P. Cissell, Affidavit, 1864-06-08, Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's Official Correspondence File, Apprehension of Fugitives from Justice Papers, 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-0001-005-0040 (November 12, 2026).

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The affiant B P Cissell states that in the year 1856 he qualified as the Guardian for Samuel, William, Sarah, Carrie & Angeline Ten, that Samuel, William & Sarah has arrived at Majority he has divided the property & settled with said parties Carrie & Angiline are girl of quite tender years, & own under said devision two Slaves each, one owns a small girl & Phil, a Man about 26 or 27 yrs old, the other a girl a boy named Dick about 14 years old. That theise slaves are all the property said Children own that yield any income to raise & educate them. That for the year 1864 he had hired Phil to D R Burbank for 240$ Dick to same for $225. That neither ofsaid slaves as he verily believes was fit for Military duty, one of them, Dick was not even enrolled. That During the late raid of one Col Cunningham^of the U S Army^ with an armed force of slaves in Union Countysaid two Slaves were captured on the farm of said D R Burbank in Union County& carried to Paducah or some part to affiant unknown and have never been returned and affiant has been informed that Said Cunningham insists that all said slaves are now forever free & refuses to allow any of them to return —

B P Cissell

Sworn to before me by B P Cissell, June 8^th 1864

D. C. James Clk. u Ct Ct

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B P Cissells' afft —

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