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 November 11, 2025 Kentucky Department for Libraries and Archives Office of the Governor, Thomas E. Bramlette: Governor's official correspondence file, petitions for pardons, remissions, and respites 1863-1867 KYR-0001-004-0194 BR8-304

Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana Patrick Sherdon (Trimble County, Kentucky, merchant) N00002645 1833? Categories: People

Trimble County, Kentucky, merchant. Native of Ireland. Married to Eliza Sherdon. Father of Nicholas Sherdon. Merchant in Trimble County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: Solon Russell (Trimble county DA) Legal: Samuel E. DeHaven (Oldham County State Sen/Rep)

Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Trimble County, p. 98. Solon Russell (Trimble county DA) N00002644 Categories: People

Trimble County, Kentucky, district attorney. Mentioned in a letter from Patrick Sheridan to Jeremiah T. Boyle in Madison, Indiana, on October 23, 1863. Provided an affidavit for Solon Russell.

Relationships Legal: Patrick Sherdon (Trimble County, Kentucky, merchant)

KYR-0001-004-0165. KYR-0001-004-0194. Madison, Indiana P00001188 Categories: Places

Seat of Jefferson County, Indiana. Located on the Ohio River.

38.7359, -85.38 Grant, Jim. Madison, Indiana: A Peace of History. Mustang, OK: Tate Publishers & Enterprises, 2012. Indiana P001818 Categories: Places

State in the midwestern United States. Capital at Indianapolis. Located on the Ohio River and Lake Michigan.

39.7684, -86.158 Encyclopedia of Indianapolis, ed. David J. Bodenhamer and Robert G. Barrows (Bloomington, IN: Indiana University Press, 1994), 52. William Vincent D'Antonio and Robert L. Beck, "Indiana," Encyclopædia Britannica, accessed September 11, 2017, https://www.britannica.com/place/Indiana-state. "Indianapolis, Indiana," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 4, 2021, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Madison, Jefferson County, Indiana Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "1": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "1": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile.
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I hereby certify that I am well acquainted with Patrick Sheridan and know him to be a man of truth and loyal to his Government. I also certify I was one of his counsel at his trial and it was a mockery of Justice.

Madison Indiana

Solon Russell Prosecuting Attony