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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-0001-004-1778 BR13-301

Ohio County, Kentucky Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) N00002805 1836-02-21 1894-09-11 Categories: People

Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, retail liquor dealer. Native of Germany. Son of Isak Baer and Judith Hausmann Baer. Retail liquor dealer in Hartford, Kentucky in 1863 and 1865.

Relationships Legal: Ohio Circuit Court

Consolidated Lists of Civil War Draft Registration Records (Provost Marshal General's Bureau; Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865), NARA RG 110, Records of the Provost Marshal General's Bureau (Civil War), Consolidated Enrollment Lists, 1863-1865 (Civil War Union Draft Records), Ohio County, KY, p. 401, (Accessed via ancestry.com). Internal Revenue Assessment Lists for Kentucky, 1862-1866 NARA RG 58, Microfilm Series M768, Ohio County, Kentucky, 1865, p. 63 (Accessed via ancestry.com). "Moses Baer (1836-1894)," Find A Grave, Memorial 97075461, accessed June 7, 2022, https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/97075461. [Unknown] [Unknown] (Ohio County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Enslaved by William White.) N00018470 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, enslaved man. Enslaved by William White in Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1862. Accused of purchasing alcohol from Moses Baer in Ohio County in 1862.

Relationships Economic: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) Slavery: William White (Mentioned in an Ohio County, Kentucky, court document.) Social: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer)

KYR-0001-004-1778. KYR-0001-004-2008. Alonzo L. Morton (Ohio Circuit Ct. Clerk) N00001691 1837-04-14 1900-11-07 Categories: People

Ohio County, Kentucky, court clerk. Kentucky native. Son of Isaac Morton and Sarah H. Morton. Resident of Ohio County, Kentucky, in 1850. Household owned twenty enslaved persons in Ohio County in 1850. Deputy Clerk of the Ohio Circuit Court in Ohio County in 1860. Household owned twenty enslaved persons in Ohio County in 1860. Clerk of the Ohio Circuit Court in 1865.

Relationships Economic: Ohio Circuit Court Legal: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) Legal: Ohio Circuit Court

Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1, pp. 46A-46B. Seventh Manuscript Census of the United States (1850), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, District 1. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 784. Eighth Manuscript Census of the United States (1860), Slave Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, pp. 156A-156B. Ninth Manuscript Census of the United States (1870), Population Schedules, Kentucky, Ohio County, Hartford, p. 505B. "Alonzo L. Morton," The Hartford Herald (Hartford, KY), November 14, 1900, p. 3. KYR-0001-004-1778. Ohio County, Kentucky P00002417 Categories: Places

County in western Kentucky. Seat at Hartford. Located on the Green River.

Relationships Legal: John Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Alonzo L. Morton (Ohio Circuit Ct. Clerk) Legal: Virgil Porter Addington (Ohio County, Kentucky, merchant and tailor.) Legal: Peter Thomas (Ohio County, Kentucky, saddler apprentice.) Legal: Thomas Moseley (Ohio County, Kentucky, resident. ) Legal: John Ford (Mentioned in an Ohio County, Kentucky, court document related to Moses Baer.)

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed October 24, 2019, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 218. Hartford, Kentucky P001000 Categories: Places

Seat of Ohio County, Kentucky.

37.4512, -86.9092 "Hartford, Kentucky," USGS: Earth Explorer, accessed February 26, 2020, https://earthexplorer.usgs.gov/. Robert M. Rennick, Kentucky Place Names (Lexington: University of Kentucky Press, 1987), 133. Ohio Circuit Court O00000484 Categories: Organizations

Located in the 3rd Judicial District of the Commonwealth of Kentucky. Judge(s): James Stewart. Commonwealth’s Attorney(s): Cicero Maxwell and John Chapeze. Clerk(s): A. L. Morton.

Relationships Legal: Moses Baer (Hartford retail liquor dealer) Legal: John J. Harrison (Ohio County, KY, attorney) Legal: John Raley (Hartford, Ohio County, Kentucky, farmer)

“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), 303-308; “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. Commonwealth of Kentucky O001025 1792 Categories: Organizations

Administrative body of the state of Kentucky. Capital at Frankfort, Kentucky. Governor(s): Beriah Magoffin (1859-1862), James F. Robinson (1862-1863), and Thomas E. Bramlette (1863-1867).

Paul Blanchard, "Office of Governor" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 380. Malcolm E. Jewell, "General Assembly" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 366. Paul J. Weber, "Court System" in The Kentucky Encyclopedia, John E. Kleber, ed. (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1992), 233. Ohio County, Kentucky 1865-06-01 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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At a Circuit Court began and held for Ohio County at the Court House in Hartford at the September Term 1863. The following Judgments were rendered against Moses Baer. viz

Comth vs Moses Baer= Indict for Tippling House Judgment for $20 -- and Cost

2 Indictments for selling liquor to a slave & Judgment for $25 -- each and costs.

All the Costs including attorneys thirty per cent has been paid by said Baer,

May ^June ^ 1st 1865 Att A. L Morton clerk Ohio Circuit Court