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Jefferson County, Kentucky Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) N00002942 1829-12-09 1883-04-28 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, diplomat and merchant. Native of Belgium. Married to Charlotte VanderSyppe VanderEspt in Nelson County, Kentucky, on December 31, 1860. Father of Annie VanderEspt and Walter VanderEspt. Vice consul to the Kingdom of Belgium in Louisville. Druggist in Louisville in 1858. Druggist in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Political: Kingdom of Belgium Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 2, p. 499. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 5, p. 498A. Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1839-1888, Film #000500448, p. 406 of 603 of microfilm (accessed via Ancestry.com). "Chas. Vanderespt Dead," The Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), April 29, 1883, p. 8. “Dr. Charles J. Vander Espt (1829-1883)," Find A Grave, Memorial 131610172, accessed June 15, 2021, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/131610172. Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) N00003057 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, miller. Native of France. Miller at the Shelby Street Mill in Louisville, Jefferson County, Kentucky, in 1859. Leased a grist mill from William Carden in Nelson County, Kentucky, from 1860 to 1863. Indicted for larceny in Nelson County in 1861. Millwright in Memphis, Shelby County, Tennessee, in 1863.

Relationships Economic: William Carden (Nelson County, Ky, farmer, miller, and retail dealer) Economic: Anthony Julian (Nelson Co, KY, journeyman carpenter and cook) Economic: Erhard Duplain (Nelson Co., Ky, carpenter) Slavery: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Social: Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) Economic: William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper) Economic: John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) Legal: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Legal: James Kirkpatrick (Louisville, Ky, policeman & police chief) Economic: Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) Social: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Legal: William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper) Legal: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Legal: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Economic: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Economic: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Social: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Social: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Legal: Nelson Circuit Court

Kentucky Marriage Records, 1783-1965, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Nelson County Marriages, 1839-1888, Film 000500448. Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1859 ed. Henry Tanner (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1859), 88. KYR-0001-004-0014. KYR-0001-004-0016. KYR-0001-004-0017. KYR-0001-020-1442. KYR-0001-020-2066. Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) N00002938 Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, resident and laundress. Washwoman for Paul Garras in New Haven in 1860. Tutored in sewing by Charlotte VanderEspt in 1861. Enslaved by John "Jack" Dawson in New Haven, Kentucky.

Relationships Slavery: John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 129B. KYR-0001-004-0014. John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) N00003058 1800? Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Eliza Dawson. Father of William Dawson, Hillery Dawson, Eliza E. Dawson, Cynthia Dawson, Joseph Dawson, and Thomas R. Dawson. Farmer in Nelson County in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1850. Farmer in Nelson County in 1860. Owned six enslaved persons (including Cirilla [Unknown]) in Nelson County in 1860.

Relationships Slavery: Cirilla [Unknown] (Nelson County, KY, washwoman & enslaved in New Haven) Social: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Legal: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 344B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 211. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 28. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 2, p. 129B. KYR-0001-004-0014. KYR-0001-004-0017. William Dawson (Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper) N00003059 1828? Categories: People

Nelson County, Kentucky, cooper. Kentucky native. Son of John "Jack" Dawson and Eliza Ice Dawson. Married to Helen Burch Dawson in LaRue County, Kentucky, on December 4, 1854. Father of Charles Dawson, Anna Dawson, and Elizabeth Dawson. Cooper with John W. Dawson in Nelson County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Nelson County in 1860. Cooper in Nelson County in 1863.

Relationships Familial: John "Jack" Dawson (Nelson County, KY, farmer) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 110. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, District 1, p. 104A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Nelson County, New Haven, p. 173B. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War) NARA RG 110, Nelson County, KY, August 1863, p. 129. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, LaRue County Marriages, 1843-1893, Film #000409559. W. H. Perrin, J. H. Battle, and G. C. Kniffin, Kentucky: A History of the State, Fourth Edition (Louisville and Chicago: F. A. Battey and Company, 1887), 837-38. KYR-0001-004-0014. Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) N00004234 1824? Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, grocer. Native of France. Married to Ann M. Henin. Father of Harriet Henin and Joseph Henin. Grocer in Louisville, Kentucky, in 1850. Grocer in Louisville in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) Legal: Nelson Circuit Court Legal: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Economic: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 401B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville, Ward 8, p. 76. Lovell Harrison Rousseau (Louisville, KY, attorney, Col. 5th KY, General Army of Ohio (USA)) N00002299 1818-08-04 1869-01-07 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, soldier, and politician. Stanford, Kentucky, native. Married to Maria Antoinett Rousseau. Admitted to the bar in 1841. Member of the House of Representatives of the State of Indiana from 1844 to 1845. Served in the U.S.-Mexican War as a captain. Member of the the Senate of the State of Indiana from 1847 to 1849. Practiced law in Louisville after 1849. Attorney in Louisville in 1860. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Confirmed as a notary public for Jefferson County, Kentucky, on February 5, 1861. Resigned his position in the Kentucky Legislature to raise troops for the Union. Served in the 5th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) as colonel from September 9, 1861, until promoted to brigadier general on October 5, 1861. Promoted to major general on October 22, 1862. Commanded a division in the Army of the Ohio and in the Army of the Cumberland until November 17, 1865. Elected as an unconditional Unionist to the 39th United States Congress and served from March 4, 1865, to July 21, 1866.

Relationships Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Military: F. B. Russell (Louisville, Kentucky, petitioner) Military: Veteran Reserve Corps (U.S.A) Military: John Gray Foster (Nashua, New Hampshire, major general (U.S.A.)) Military: United States War Department Military: 12th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 6, p. 316. Ezra J. Warner, Generals in Blue: Lives of the Union Commanders (Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1964), 412-13. Find A Grave, "Maria Antoinette Dozier Rousseau (1826-1898)," Memorial #49305630, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/49305630 (accessed June 28, 2021). Jack DeBerry, "Lovell Harrison Rousseau" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber, (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 783. Joseph G. Dawson, General Lovell H. Rousseau and Louisiana Reconstruction Louisiana History 20 (Fall 1979), 373-91. KYR-0001-017-0062. Jefferson Brown (AKA Jeff. Brown, Louisville/New Albany attorney) N00004236 1824-04-20 1878-11-18 Categories: People

Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, attorney, politician, judge, and notary. Pewee Valley, Kentucky, native. Married Jane "Jennie" McMurtry Brown in Henderson County on April 22, 1856. Father of Stuart Brown. Studied law at Augusta College in Augusta, Kentucky. Graduate of the University of Louisville. Member of the Democratic Party. Clerk of the Union County Court in Union County. Judge of the Union County Court in Union County. Representative for Union County in the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in 1849. Attorney in Louisville, Kentucky, and New Albany, Indiana, from 1858.

Relationships Legal: Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist) Legal: Charles Dupre (Louisville, Ky, carpenter) Legal: Joseph Henin (Louisville, Ky, grocer, security for Paul Garras in Nelson Co, KY) Political: Calvin Fairbank (United States abolitionist) Political: Beriah Magoffin (Governor of Kentucky 1859-1862) Legal: Paul Garras (Nelson County, KY, millwright) Political: Junius Lynch Clemmons (Jefferson County, Kentucky, lawyer. )

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Indiana, Floyd County, New Albany Ward 2, p. 72. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Jefferson County, Louisville Ward 12, p. 591A. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Henderson County Marriages, Film #001944390, p. 73. Henry Tanner, ed., Tanner’s Louisville Directory and Business Advertiser for 1861 (Louisville: Directory Publication and Advertising Agency, 1861), 27. "Jeff. Brown's Body. How it Laid Mouldering in the Canal Until Dredged Out Yesterday," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 4, 1879, p. 4. "Jeff. Brown's Memory: The Louisville Bar Meets and Drafts Resolutions of Respect for the Deceased Lawyer," Courier-Journal (Louisville, KY), February 8, 1879, p. 2 Indiana Archives and Records Administration; Indianapolis, IN, USA; Death Certificates, Floyd County, 1923; Roll: 14, File #32221. New Haven, Kentucky P00003061 Categories: Places

Town in Nelson County, Kentucky.

37.6578, -85.5911 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington, KY: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 212. USGS: Earth Explorer, "New Haven, Kentucky," https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed June 29, 2021). Memphis, Tennessee P001003 Categories: Places

Seat of Shelby County, Tennessee. Located on the Mississippi River.

35.1495, -90.049 John E. Harkins, "Memphis" in Tennessee Encyclopedia of History and Culture, 2016, http://www.tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entry.php?rec=889 (accessed July 19, 2016). USGS: Earth Explorer, "Memphis, Tennessee" https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on February 18, 2020). Bardstown, Kentucky P00004617 Categories: Places

Seat of Nelson County, Kentucky.

37.8092, -85.4669 Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: The University Press of Kentucky, 1984), 14. USGS: Earth Explorer, "Bardstown, Kentucky " https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/ (accessed on January 30, 2020). Kentucky P001800 Categories: Places

State in the upper south of the United States. Capital at Frankfort. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2009, -84.8733 "Frankfort, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed June 14, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992). Jefferson County, Kentucky P001005 Categories: Places

County in north central Kentucky. Seat at Louisville. Located on the Ohio River.

38.2542, -85.7594 George H. Yater, "Jefferson County," in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 464-67. "Louisville, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed August 23, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. United States Army O00001186 1775 Categories: Organizations

The organization of infantry, cavalry, and artillery military units in the United States government. Commander(s): Winfield Scott, George B. McClellan, Henry W. Halleck, and Ulysses S. Grant.

Relationships Military: James Olney (possible U. S. soldier) Military: Joel Adams (Lincoln County, KY, farmer & pvt 19th KY Inf USA) Military: Joseph Innes (possible Lincoln County, KY, soldier) Military: Richard D. Cunningham (Colonel, U.S. Army) Military: Edward Baker, Jr. (Caldwell County, Kentucky, soldier and saloon owner) Military: Crawford C. Adams (Paulding County, Ohio, resident and soldier.) Military: 14th Ohio Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A) Military: Office of the Quartermaster General of Kentucky Military: J. K. Edwards (Kentucky, aid to Bramletter, "colonel") Military: Jeremiah Tilford Boyle (Union general, Boyle Co, KY attorney, pres Lou City Railway Co) Military: Marcellus Mundy (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Louisville, Kentucky, attorney and soldier) Military: Army of the Ohio Military: Military District of Kentucky Military: Luther Thayer Thustin (Louisville US Army Paymaster) Military: Hartwell T. Burge (Muhlenberg, Kentucky, Meth minister; chaplain 3rd KY Cav; colonel 48th KY Inf; comd'r Dpt of OH 1864) Military: Alexander Magruder (Jefferson County, Kentucky, merchant and soldier) Military: Charles David Pennebaker (Louisville, Kentucky, attorney, KY state rep & senator; col 27th KY Inf USA & state military agent) Military: John F. Lay (Breckinridge, KY, soldier) Military: James Murrell Shackelford (Hopkins County, KY, attorney, colonel 25th Inf, 8th Ky Cav, and brig gen. in 1863) Military: Washington Seawell (Union Army, colonel and mustering officer) Military: John William Finnell (Adj Gen'l, Kenton Co. State Rep, attorney) Military: Edmund A. Starling (Hopkinsville, Christian County, Kentucky, resident and Colonel (U.S.A.)) Military: 35th Kentucky Volunteer Infantry Regiment (U.S.A.) Military: Edwin McMasters Stanton (US attorney general and secretary of war) Military: Thomas McCurdy Vincent (US Assistant adjutant general, Brigadier General (U.S.A.) ) Military: William Forman (Clark County, Kentucky, laborer and soldier.) Military: Presley Kimbrell (Powell County, Kentucky, carpenter and soldier.) Economic: William Bird Holeman (Frankfort City Marshal and KY Public Printer) Political: Government of the United States of America Military: Marion Larrison (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav) Military: John W. Houze (Switzerland County, Indiana, private 2nd IN Cav USA) Military: John Royalty (Barren County, Kentucky, barkeeper) Military: Henry W. Royalty (Barren County, KY, resident) Military: John Mason Marcus (Grant County, Kentucky, farmer) Military: Edward Davis Townsend (Assistant Adjutant General (U.S.Army)) Military: Adjutant General's Department (U.S.A.) Military: Office of Quartermaster of U. S. Army Military: United States War Department Military: Horatio Phillips Van Cleve (Todd County, Minnesota, farmer and soldier (2nd Minn. and General U.S. A.)) Military: [Unknown] Johnson () Military: Wiley Taul Poynter (Clark County, Kentucky, farmer, banker, and soldier) Military: Lowdy Howard (Jefferson County, Kentucky, apprentice ship carpenter, tobacconist and soldier) Military: Thornton Williams (Scott County, Kentucky, soldier. Formerly enslaved by Urias Offutt, accused of attempted murder.) Political: Urias M. Offutt (Scott County, Kentucky, farmer. and slaveholder.) Military: Robert Crooke Wood (Washington D.C., assistant surgeon general, 1854-1865) Military: Madison Mills (New York County, New York, surgeon. US army medical director in St. Louis, MO) Military: Charles Carroll Gray (Ontario County, New York, surgeon. ) Military: Henry Wager Halleck (U.S. Army soldier) Military: Andrew Jackson Smith (United States Army career soldier and commander) Military: Thomas Harvey Harris (Jefferson County, Indiana, book rubber and soldier. Military mayor of Memphis, 1864-1865.) Military: Stephen Augustus Hurlbut (Belvidere, Illinois, lawyer, representative, and soldier) Military: Edward H. Green (Dearborn County, Indiana, attorney and soldier - Cpt. 11th Ky. Cav)

Richard W. Stewart, ed. American Military History (Washington, D.C.: Center of Military History, United States Army, 2009). Kingdom of Belgium O00006447 1831-07-21 Categories: Organizations

European kingdom. Capital at Brussels. Leader(s): King Leopold I of Belgium.

Relationships Political: Charles J. VanderEspt (Louisville, KY, Belgian vice consul, druggist)

Alexander B. Murphy, et al., "Belgium" in Encyclopedia Brittanica, https://www.britannica.com/place/Belgium (accessed May 22, 2017). Jefferson County, Kentucky 1863-09-08 Legal/Financial English Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "2": Changes to page transcript. Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "2": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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The Affiant, Charles J. VanderEpst, states that he was residing at New Haven, Nelson County at the time Paul Garis, was living there, and was in his employment, at the time he was arrested, in the charge of an attempt to adbduct a slave, belonging to Jack Dawson. He states that he was and is intimately acquainted with the whole circumstances, and that the charges in said indebtments are wholly groundless. He states that the charge orginated in the mind of Dawson the Prosecuter, from a jealeusy he had against said Garis, for cuckolding him Dawson, with the said negro, and done for the purpose of getting rid of Garis as well as some suit that had arisen between a son of Dawson and Garis. Garis being a Frenchman and ignorant of the law, became frightened, and Dawson taking. advantage of this thought that he could get him away. Garis, before the war broke out, being a millwright, was induced to engage in work at Memphis, at his business, and went away with the intention of returning to the trial but the war broke out, and he being in the rebel lines, could not get back. His surety Jos Henin ^Garis^ employed Genl Rousseau, to go up to Bardstown to defend for him, and went once but the case was continued, afterwards his attorney was called into the military service, and could not attend. Garis being away, no appearance was made

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Upon the forfeiture, the said Henin has already paid about $3270 -- The said Garis and Dupere are poor men, and the payment of the executions will be very oppressive. Dupere and Henin are loyal men -- Dupere has had three sons in the Federal army for two years or more and now has two remaining in the army. He is in hopes that the Gov will in the exercise of your Executive clemency, will grant remission of the fines. Dupere is now sick and has no dependence for a living upon his sons who are away. It will indeed be very oppresive for him to pay it -- indeed it will be impossible.

ChasJ. VanderEspt Vice Counsul of Belgium

State of Kentucky

Jefferson County

Charles J. VanderEspt states he believes the statements contained in the foregoing affidavit are true

Chas J Vandrepst

sworn to before me this 8 Sept 1863

Jeff Brown N. P. J C,