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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-0001-004-0407 BR9-141 to BR9-142

Barren County, Kentucky John Burks (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) N00015554 1830-12-06 1890-07-28 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Son of Mary Burks. Married to Mary E. Burks. Farmer in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Owned two enslaved persons in Barren County in 1860. Farmer in Barren County in 1863.

Relationships Legal: Thomas S. Walton (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Legal: Green Circuit Court Legal: William Barret Allen (Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician) Legal: William H. Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 475B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 231. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 787. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 50A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Hiseville, p. 639A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Barren County, KY, February 1864, p. 39. "John Burks(1830-1890)," Find A Grave, Memorial #179912052, accessed September 8, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/179912052. William H. Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) N00012824 1840-07-27 1928-04-26 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farm laborer. Kentucky native. Son of Drury Roberts and Lucy Roberts. Student in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned six enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farm laborer in Barren County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John W. Barrett (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff) Legal: Samuel T. Wilson (Green County, Kentucky, clerk of circuit court) Legal: Samuel A. Spencer (Green County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Samuel Rogers Tolle (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Green Circuit Court Familial: Drury Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Economic: William Barret Allen (Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 442A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 214. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 790. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #10711. William Barret Allen (Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician) N00002159 1803-05-19 1882-04-22 Categories: People

Greensburg, Kentucky, attorney, banker, and politician. Kentucky native. Married to Jane Pope Helm Allen. Married to Huldah Wilcox Allen. Married to Miley "Millie" N. Baker Allen. Father of Jane Allen, Harriet Allen, Edward P. Allen, Mary B. Allen, and Fanny B. Allen. Attended Athens Seminary in Greensburg, Kentucky, under the Rev. John Howe. Studied under Dr. James Priestly in Nashville, Tennessee. Teacher in Greensburg. Studied law under Samuel Brents and admitted to the bar. Member of the Whig Party. Postmaster in Greensburg from 1823 to 1828. Justice of the peace in Green County from 1828 to 1829. Member of the House of Representatives of the Commonwealth of Kentucky in Green County from 1829 to 1831. Attorney for the Bank of the Commonwealth at Greensburg in 1829. Editor of a Whig political and literary publication in 1834. Clerk of the Bank of Kentucky branch at Greensburg from 1835 to 1839. Master in Chancery for Green County in 1843. Cashier of the Bank of Kentucky branch at Greensburg from 1839 to 1857. Member of the Masonic Order in Kentucky. Most Worshipful Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of Kentucky from 1846 to 1847. Owned fourteen enslaved persons in 1850. Owned ten enslaved persons in 1860. Colonel of the 16th Regiment of Kentucky State Militia (U.S.A.). Attorney in Greensburg from 1858 to 1862. County attorney for Green County from 1862 to 1874.

Relationships Legal: Green Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2., p. 154A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, District No. 2, p. 226. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg District No. 2, p. 88. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Green County, Greensburg District No. 2, p. 77A. The Biographical Encyclopædia of Kentucky of the Dead and Living Men of the Nineteenth Century, vol. 1 (Cincinnati: J. M. Armstrong & Company, 1878), 76-77. "The Grand Lodge of Kentucky F. & A.M.: Past Grand Masters," (https://grandlodgeofkentucky.org/?page_id=1330&gmid=41) (accessed on September 6, 2017). "William B. Allen (1803-1882)," Find A Grave, Memorial #106115556, accessed March 10, 2017, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/106115556. Thomas S. Walton (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) N00015558 1813-05-27 1909-12-03 Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace. Virginia native. Married to Mary C. Hatton Walton. Father of Henry W. Walton, Louisa A. Walton, John Copeland Walton, James C. Walton, Dundridge S. Walton, Elizabeth M. Walton, and Thomas G. Walton. Merchant in Barren County, Kentucky, in 1850. Owned two enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Justice of the peace in Barren County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Green Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 433A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 210. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 183-4. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, Caverna, p. 258A. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #24073. "Thomas Shirley Walton (1813-1909)," Find A Grave, Memorial #136874924, accessed September 8, 2021, http://www.findagrave.com/memorial/136874924. Drury Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) N00012823 1794? Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Virginia native. Married to Lucy Richardson Roberts. Father of Frances C. Roberts, Sarah C. Roberts, Judith C. Roberts, William H. Roberts, James M. Roberts, and Mary Roberts. Farmer in Barren County in 1850. Owned six enslaved persons in Barren County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Employed William H. Roberts as a farm laborer in Barren County in 1860.

Relationships Legal: John W. Barrett (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and deputy sheriff) Legal: Samuel T. Wilson (Green County, Kentucky, clerk of circuit court) Legal: Samuel A. Spencer (Green County, Kentucky, attorney and judge) Legal: Samuel Rogers Tolle (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and sheriff) Legal: Green Circuit Court Legal: Thomas S. Walton (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Familial: William H. Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer)

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 442A. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, Division 2, p. 214. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 790. Kentucky Death Certificates, 1911-1965, Kentucky Office of Vital Statistics, KDLA, Frankfort, KY, File #10711. Braxton W Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) N00015561 1824? Categories: People

Barren County, Kentucky, farmer. Kentucky native. Married to Nancy W. Cox Roberts in Barren County, Kentucky, on August 3, 1860. Father of William B. Roberts, John W. Roberts, and George Lee Roberts. Carpenter in Hart County in 1850. Farmer in Barren County in 1860. Owned one enslaved person in Barren County in 1860. Farmer in Barren County in 1864.

Relationships Legal: Thomas S. Walton (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer and justice of the peace) Familial: William H. Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Familial: Drury Roberts (Barren County, Kentucky, farmer) Legal: Green Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Hart County, p. 215B. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 791. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Barren County, District 1, p. 50A. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Metcalfe County, Lafayette, p. 70A. Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), NARA RG 110, Barren County, KY, February 1864, p. 131. Kentucky Marriage Records, Madison County Courthouse, Richmond, Kentucky, Barren County Marriages, Film #000216816, p. 11-12. Barren County, Kentucky P00000558 Categories: Places

County in south central Kentucky. Seat at Glasgow. Located on the Barren River.

36.9959, -85.9119 Cecil E. Goode, “Barren County,” The Kentucky Encyclopedia, ed. John E. Kleber (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 54. "Glasgow, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 11, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. 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). Green Circuit Court O00000387 1793 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 5th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1860 to 1861. Judge(s): George Kavanaugh. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Andy Barnett. Clerk(s): Samuel T. Wilson. Located in the 15th Judicial District of Kentucky from 1862 to 1865. Judge(s): T. T. Alexander. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): J. H. C Sandidge. Clerk(s): Samuel T. Wilson.

Relationships Legal: William H. Woods (Green County, Kentucky, Presbyterian minister) Legal: Mary [Unknown] (Green County, Kentucky, enslaved woman.) Legal: Daniel Loyall (Green County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Lucinda Fields (Green County, Kentucky, resident. Witness in the infanticide case of Mary [Unknown] in Green County in 1864.) Legal: John Coakley (Green County, Kentucky, farmer.) Legal: Edward B. Sydnor (Green County, Kentucky, farm hand.)

“Annual Report of the Auditor of Public Accounts of the State of Kentucky, for the Fiscal Year Ending October 10, 1861,” in _1862 Kentucky Documents, Legislative Document No. 1 (Frankfort, Ky.: Jno. B. Major, State Printer, 1862), 303-08. “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), 301-06. “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), 347-50. Barren County, Kentucky 1864-01-08 Legal/Financial English Version 1 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 2 of page "4": Changes to page transcript. Version 0 of page "4": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 0 of page "3": Empty transcript -- probably initial upload of page facsimile. Version 2 of page "1": 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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Barren county Stat of Ky

John Burks states that he had W H Robertsattached as a witness for him in a suit that he had in the Green circuit court and that said W H Roberts was sick and unable to attend the court that he was attached to he also states that he informed Roberts that he could prove the same fact by another that he knew and could do without him he states that he directed his lawyer to have the attachment agst Roberts dismissed as he had told him he could do without him this 8 day of Jany 1864

John Burks

Sworned and Subscribed to before me by John Burks this 8 day of Jany 1864

Thos S Walton J P B C

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Drury Roberts & B W Roberts States that at the time that W. H Roberts was attached to attend Green Circuit Cort that Said W H Roberts was unable to attend this 8 day of Jany 1864

Drury Roberts

B. W. Roberts

Sworned and Subscribed to before me by Drury Roberts & B W Roberts this 8 day of Jany. 1864

Thos S, Walton J P B. C