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John Morton Duke, Jr. (Maysville, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court clerk)

b. 1837? d. 1902-01-06

Mason County, Kentucky, attorney and circuit court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of John M. Duke, Sr., and Hannah Duke. Married to Sarah "Sally" Taylor Dewees Duke on January 23, 1862. Student in Mason County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned five enslaved persons in Mason County in 1850. Attorney in Mason County in 1860. Household owned four enslaved persons in Mason County in 1860. Clerk of the Mason Circuit Court from 1862 to 1867.

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White

Bibliography

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2, p. 104B.

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, District 2.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 313.

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Mason County, Maysville, p. 5A.

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Kentucky, 9th Congressional District, Vol. 1, September 1863, p. 97, p. 100 of microfilm, (Accessed via ancestry.com on May 19, 2020).

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1862,” in 1863 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 24. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1863), 298-306.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1863,” in 1864 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 10. (Frankfort, Ky.: Wm. E. Hughes, State Printer, 1864), 301-306.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1864,” in 1865 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1865), 9-12.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1865,” in 1865/66 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: George D. Prentice, State Printer, 1866), 9-12.

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1866,” in 1866 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1866), 347-350.

Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts, of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1867 in 1867 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1. (Frankfort, Ky.: John H. Harney, Public Printer, 1867), p. 356.

The Dewees Family : Genealogical data, biographical facts and historical information, Mrs. Philip E. LaMunyan, Ellwood Roberts, ed. Norristown, PA: William H. Roberts, 1905, 44-45.

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Duke, John Morton, Jr.. Accessed via the Civil War Governors of Kentucky Digital Documentary Edition, https://discovery.civilwargovernors.org/document/S32207342 (November 12, 2026).

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